About this episode

Michael Goldfarb explores the 50th anniversary of Taxi Driver and contrasts New York City then and now.

In this BBC radio documentary for the 50th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver, FRDH host Michael Goldfarb's look at New York as it was then , when Travis Bickle drove the night-shift, and as it is now.

Topics covered

• Taxi Driver
• New York
• Martin Scorsese
• film history

Keywords

• documentary
• cinema
• urban change

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