Film Screening “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull”

Screening of “Taxi Driver”: Fri 14 Nov 2014, 7.30 pm
Screening of “Raging Bull”: Sat 15 Nov 2014, 7.30 pm
TPD

From TPD:

This November marks the Martin Scorsese film month on every Friday and Saturday night. In the first week, you are invited to the film screening “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull”, 2 typical works in the early years of Martin Scorsese’s career.

About film

Taxi Driver

TAXI DRIVER is a 1976 American crime/vigilante film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City soon after the end of the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.

The film is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked TAXI DRIVER as the 52nd-greatest American film on its AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list.
(Wikipedia)

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Raging Bull

RAGING BULL is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta’s memoir RAGING BULL: My Story.

It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta’s well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife. The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana and Frank Vincent.
(Wikipedia)

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Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.

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