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How Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle Is Still Terrifyingly Relevant 50 Years On
Taxi Driver remains a key cultural work reflecting 1970s American social decline and violence, winning the 1976 Cannes Palme d'Or and influencing later films and real-world events.
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Fifty years ago, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster delivered a striking portrait of urban alienation.
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Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese’s film remains a troubling reflection of our times
IMDBMartin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turns 50 this month. Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Festival, Scorsese’s searing, hallucinatory portrait of urban alienation is widely regarded as one of the most important American films of all time. It is also unquestionably one of the most troubling. Taxi Driver channels the anger, paranoia and alienation of an American decade shaped by economic decline, imperialist …
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