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Special Event · Sat Nov 7 · 1:30 PM

Taxi Driver at 50

A Special Anniversary Screening

Paul Schrader in person to receive the inaugural Ojai Film Festival Storyteller Award on the 50th anniversary of Taxi Driver, and to discuss his latest film.

Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader
Robert De Niro beside a yellow cab in Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver, 1976

Taxi Driver (1976) follows Travis Bickle, an isolated and mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran working the night shift as a New York City cab driver. Disgusted by the city’s decay and fueled by obsession, he descends into a crusade to save a young girl and purge the streets.

Make it a Paul Schrader double feature: his new film The Basics of Philosophy screens the same day, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Art Center Theater. It is a regular screening in competition with its own ticket ($12, free with a pass).

1976 · USA · 114 min

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Written by: Paul Schrader

Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel

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Taxi Driver poster

Sat Nov 7 · 1:30 PM

Taxi Driver at 50

A Special Anniversary Screening

Chaparral Auditorium

$20$13 discounted

Tickets on sale soon

Special event, sold per event. All Access+ includes it.