Incredibly, it has been fifty years since the release of Taxi Driver, one of Martin Scorsese's first major hits, three years after directing his breakthrough film Mean Streets. Taxi Driver filmed in ...

Not everyone was ready for this soulful, tragic odyssey into violence and loneliness, with Robert De Niro starring as Travis Bickle, a cabbie who longs to wash the scum off the streets like a ...

Written during a dark period in Schrader's life, the Martin Scorsese–directed, Robert De Niro–starring classic earned four Oscar nominations. Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader was lying in a ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

One of the most seminal, influential, controversial and iconic films of all time turns 50 years old on Sunday. Yes, “Taxi Driver,” from director Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Jodie ...

Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” is one of the most thoroughly bleak films ever made. The film tells us to put our faith neither in society, which is presented as grotesque and disordered, nor in its ...

Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turns 50 this month. Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes ...

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Alissa Wilkinson, a movie critic with The New York Times, about why Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," the neo-noir crime thriller starring Robert De ...

Political violence, by anyone and against anyone, regardless of beliefs, is abhorrent to me. While there is a lot of violence in Taxi Driver, the threat of an assassination by Travis Bickle (De Niro) ...