‘People are still isolated and obsessive’: De Niro, Scorsese, Foster and Schrader reunite for Taxi Driver at 50

Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader attend the Taxi Driver screening at the Tribeca film festival on 5 June 2026. Photograph: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival

It’s a half-century-old film so darkly prophetic and viscerally relevant that even its makers are still unpacking it.

“It’s a sense of being isolated, it’s about being lonely and not being able to communicate or connect,” said Taxi Driver’s director, Martin Scorsese, last night. “For me, that’s universal. It’s always going to speak to young people.”