Taxi Driver

Part of our ‘Criminal Mastermind: Three Classics by Martin Scorsese’ series!

50th Anniversary! Series introduction by Paul Zoccolillo at the Sat. May 16th screening!

A special Series Pass is available to catch any three of the six screenings in this series! When clicking ‘Buy Tickets’, select the Series Pass option, or when you purchase in-person at the box office, we will provide your pass when you attend your first screening, which can then be shown at up to two more screenings for admission. Whether you attend all of the Saturday screenings, all of the Wednesday screenings, or mix and match depending on your availability – the choice is yours! (Separate admissions will also remain available at our regular prices.)

Adult Series Pass – $40

Senior / Student Series Pass – $35

Members Series Pass – $30

Hiding in the shadows of bustling mid-70s New York City, former U.S. Marine Travis Bickle drives the night streets of the neon-lit metropolis in his yellow cab, looking for excitement. But Travis is a nobody amid nobodies. As a result, trapped by an increasingly distorted perception of reality, he delves deeper and deeper into a world of obsession and vitriolic revulsion at the world around him. After all, the endless string of bitter rejections from unobtainable objects of desire and condemned young souls can only serve to break one’s spirit. A crystal-clear plan to deliver change begins to take shape, and as Travis braces up to clean this filthy city in a flaming manifesto of unbridled violence, his lethal weapons will become the grim messengers of truth – his truth.

Paul Zoccolillo is the Cinema and Projection Coordinator for the Westdale Theatre, having served originally as a volunteer during its restoration, and was later employed with its re-opening in 2019. Paul has given regular Film Talks as part of the theatre’s yearly Noirvember series, as well as delivering a lecture on the history of the Westdale on the occasion of its 90th anniversary in 2025. He presents ‘Criminal Mastermind: Three Classics by Martin Scorsese’ as a tribute of the one of the greatest living and working filmmakers, whose influence continues to be felt throughout contemporary cinema.