At 50, ‘Taxi Driver’ is still a troubling reflection of our times

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turned 50 on Sunday. 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. Read the full story on