Taxi Driver at 50: How Martin Scorsese turned New York into the coolest scum-ridden hellhole on earth

Taxi Driver at 50: How Martin Scorsese turned New York into the coolest scum-ridden hellhole on earth

Movies like ‘The French Connection’, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Death Wish’ depicted the Big Apple as a scuzzy metropolis of filth and grime. And despite the reported fury of the New York Mayor’s Office, they helped define the city as we know it to this day, writ…

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