my favorite movie of 1976:

Taxi Driver

(Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, Albert Brooks. Directed by Martin Scorsese.)

Pauline Kael observed:

Taxi Driver is the fevered story of an outsider in New York [Robert De Niro] — a man who can’t find any point of entry into human society. … Scorsese, with his sultry moodiness and his appetite for the pulp sensationalism of forties movies, is just the director to define an American underground man’s resentment. … [H]is asthmatic bedridden childhood in a Sicilian-American home in Little Italy propelled him toward a fix on the violently exciting movies he saw. … Scorsese got something out of his asthma: he knows how to make us experience the terror of suffocation.

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