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Will we ever see its like again? Powered by Paul Schrader’s instinctive howl of a screenplay, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s landmark portrait of urban alienation is so abrasive and contentious that it’s hard to imagine today’s Hollywood (or indeed today’s Scorsese and De Niro) producing anything to match its out-there impact.

Disgusted by the decadence on the streets, rebuffed by an angelic Cybill Shepherd and determined to ‘save’ child prostitute Jodie Foster (just reread those last four words!), De Niro’s New York City cabbie Travis Bickle turns moral self-righteousness, sexual anxiety and deep loneliness into one of the screen’s most persuasive psychotics – his startling odyssey perfectly complemented by the sleazy discord of Bernard Herrmann’s wondrous score. Presented in a new digital restoration that was supervised by Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman, this still touches some uneasy, secret place in every viewer. ‘Are you talkin’ to me?’ (Notes by Trevor Johnston).