{"id":8144,"date":"2026-10-23T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:58:00","slug":"taxi-driver-by-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/10\/23\/taxi-driver-by-martin-scorsese\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Taxi Driver<\/em> by Martin Scorsese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ebert put it, <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> is \u201ca hell, from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything\u2019s extraordinary\u2014De Niro, Foster, Shepherd; Chapman\u2019s chemtones &#038; POV shots; Herrmann\u2019s phenomenal score; and Schrader\u2019s script that distills a moment in American history into the story of a damaged and lost individual.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration is gorgeous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a target=\"somethingUnique\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_Driver\"><em>Taxi Driver<\/em><\/a> by Martin Scorsese, 1976.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on October 19, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/10\/23\/taxi-driver-by-martin-scorsese\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese\"><p>\ud83c\udfac \u201cAre you talking to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}