↩ Accueil

Vue lecture

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, writes Xan Brooks

© Everett/Shutterstock

  •  
❌