Taxi Driver at 50: Loneliness, Legacy and a City in Transition
At Tribeca’s Taxi Driver 50th anniversary event, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Paul Schrader reflected on the film’s enduring themes of isolation and its cinema-shaping legacy—from winning the Palme d’Or and earning four Oscar nominations to the iconic line “You talkin’ to me?”—while noting how its portrait of urban alienation remains relevant in today’s digital age and amid New York City’s transformation and evolving filmmaking realities.
