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Suffering from insomnia, loner Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.聽Taxi Driver聽was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; DeNiro and Jodie Foster were also nominated.
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The story of Bronx native, Jake LaMotta, (Robert DeNiro) a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion–particularly towards his wife and manager/brother–which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption. DeNiro won the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of LaMotta.
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A meek word processor, Paul Hackett, (Griffin Dunne) impulsively travels to Manhattan’s Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances. With聽special guest – screenwriter Joe Minion.聽
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Based on best-selling book,聽Wiseguys聽by Nicholas Pileggi, the film聽Goodfellas聽is the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant, Henry Hill and his rise and fall in the in the kinetic and gritty world of the Italian New York mafia.聽Goodfellas聽stars Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, and Joe Pesci won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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Sundays with Scorsese聽is presented as part of the Linda And George Hiltzik Screening Series.