TAXI DRIVER
Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film, written by Paul Schrader, really is one of the key movies from the Seventies – a moody masterpiece that contains some indelible performances, and some even more unforgettable set pieces and sequences. Robert De Niro, as loner Travis Bickle, captures with frightening credibility the ramp-up of a societal outcast to acts of violence – which is even more pertinent, and frightening, today than it was four decades ago. And watch for the supporting performances by Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle and Harvey Keitel. Each, in its own way, is perfectly pitched.