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Broken Embraces (2009)
Thu, Feb 11
6:30 pm and 9:30 pm
Fri, Feb 12
6:30 pm and 9:30 pm
Sat, Feb 13
6:30 pm and 9:30 pm
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Sat, Feb 13
3 pm
Sin Nombre (2009)
Thu, Feb 18
6:30 pm and 9:30 pm
Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver (1976)

PAC Classic 100 Film
Sunday, March 21, 2010, at 3:00 pm
Browning Cinema
Tickets: $6, $5 faculty/staff,
$4 seniors, and $3 all students

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Directed by Martin Scorsese
Rated R, 113 minutes

Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him--including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save--his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Scorcese fills Paul Schrader's screenplay with a tragic realism, brilliantly capturing the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps so deep inside his role that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score--which turned out to be his last--completes the urban nightmare.

Thank you to the Meg and John Brogan Endowment for the PAC 100 Classic Film Series.

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The Wild Bunch (1969)

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Sin Nombre (2009)

Thursday, February 18, 2010, at 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm
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