Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film stars Robert De Niro as a mentally unstable veteran who works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Before the Screening: A conversation with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese.

MARTIN SCORSESE is an Academy Award-winning Director and one of the most influential filmmakers working today. He has directed critically acclaimed, award-winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Shutter Island, Hugo and Silence. In 2007, his film The Departed won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. Scorsese also directed The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman, which both received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. His 2023 feature, Killers of The Flower Moon, which received 10 Oscar nominations including Best Director and Best Picture, made its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and was released exclusively in theaters worldwide in October 2023 and on Apple TV+ in January 2024. Scorsese has also produced numerous projects; including MUBI’s Die My Love (2025), and the docudrama series Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, which the second half of Season Two will premiere on Fox Nation this April. He is currently in production on his next feature, What Happens At Night, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Scorsese has directed numerous documentaries including the Peabody Award winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, Italianamerican, The Last Waltz, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia,
Public Speaking, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, and the Emmy nominated docu-series Pretend It’ s a City. He received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special for his documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. Additionally, Scorsese co-directed The 50 Year Argument in 2014 with his longtime documentary editor David Tedeschi and executive produced the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, winning an Emmy and DGA Award for directing the pilot episode. Scorsese and Tedeschi also co-directed Personality Crisis: One Night Only, which premiered at the 2022 New York Film Festival and was released on Showtime in April 2023. Scorsese and Tedeschi’s latest collaboration, Beatles 64, which Scorsese produced, premiered on Disney+ in November 2024. Scorsese is the founder and chair of The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of motion picture history.