1976: Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver premieres to widespread acclaim, winning the year’s Palme d’Or and solidifying its director’s reputation as one of the foremost representatives of New Hollywood. Amidst rampant corruption in New York City, with crime rates skyrocketing and the city’s debt mounting to unsustainable levels, the movies of the moment seemed to actively reflect the realities at hand. As the conservative myths peddled in the immediate post-war years had come to a crushing end, first tarnished by Vietnam and then fully dispelled by Watergate, traditional Hollywood entertainment needed to keep up with the times—and if the epoch’s defining discontent was to be harnessed by an industry made increasingly precarious by the ever-growing influence of television, then new popular forms were needed. And Scorsese, along with the likes of Coppola, Friedkin, and Cimino, supplied exactly that, introducing modernism into the Hollywood studio system,...
- 5/13/2019
- MUBI
To paraphrase John Carpenter, “In France, I’m an auteur; in the USA, I’m a bum.” The same can surely be said of Abel Ferrara, a veteran filmmaker who at this point in his career is more likely to bank on Gallic financiers than stateside money. Love him or hate him, you can always count on Ferrara — a true enfant terrible of American cinema — to bring something interesting to the table.
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- 5/21/2017
- by Bradley Warren
- The Playlist
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