Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver with Bernard Herrmann’s score performed live by Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra and conductor Robert Ziegler.
Presented by Southbank Centre and BFI. The performance will be introduced from the stage by Bernard Herrmann's widow, Mrs Norma Herrmann.
USA, 1976, 113 mins, dir Martin Scorsese, with Robert DeNiro, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Very few artists make a contribution to their form as uniquely significant as the one Martin Scorsese has made to cinema. Coinciding with the release of his new film, Silence, and the BFI’s major Scorsese retrospective (Jan – Feb 2017), we present one of his most iconic works with a live score for the first ever time.
Set against a lurid cinematic vision of New York, DeNiro’s Travis Bickle is the taxi driver who becomes lost, isolated and alienated as he struggles to connect with the city he can’t understand. Bernard Herrmann’s score brings together old and new Hollywood, with brooding, shifting chords, an ominous drum beat, a soaring saxophone melody. Herrmann’s glorious last film score, delivered the night before he died, provides an eloquent, nightmarish texture to Scorsese’s hellish portrait of 70s Manhattan.
Presented by arrangement with SONY PICTURES & PARK CIRCUS FILMS
Suitable for persons aged 18 or older.
