As plumes of steam rise and dissipate from the grates of New York in the opening frames of Taxi Driver, we see the unsettled brown eyes of Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in a career-defining ...
There was a lot going on in 1976. Underdog Jimmy Carter beat Gerald Ford for the presidency, China’s Chairman Mao Zedong died after 27 years in charge, and Australia passed the Aboriginal Land Rights ...
1976's Taxi Driver was one of the most controversial movies of its time. The film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, followed Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a disaffected ...
As a movement of cinema, the film noir genre can be traced back to the era between the early '40s and the late '50s. The best film noir movies from that period have become case studies in crime ...
Movies like "Rocky, "Taxi Driver," and "All the President's Men" all came out in 1976, and have some noticeable resonance ...
Nowadays, few of Martin Scorsese's films are quite as highly regarded as his neo-noir psychological drama Taxi Driver. Before its theatrical release in 1976, though, the sentiment around it was much ...
The director, screenwriter and stars of the 1976 classic film spoke about its making and parallels to the internet age at New York’s Tribeca film festival It’s a half-century-old film so darkly ...