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A 50th anniversary celebration of ‘Taxi Driver’

Martin Scorsese's masterpiece about loneliness, urban decay, and vigilantism is 50 years old this month. We’re revisiting archival interviews about ‘Taxi Driver’ with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader and actors Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, and Al Brooks.Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews 'Pillion.' Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  Remembering actor Robert Duvall & filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

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  Michael Pollan’s journey to understand consciousness

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  A look at the ethical implications of AI

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  A daughter's rebellion against a regime and her father

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  The American Presidency, Redefined

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  Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone

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  ‘Sinners’ Songwriter Raphael Saadiq

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  Fela Kuti and the music of political resistance

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  Excavating the Epstein files

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  Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’

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  The Ruby Ridge siege & conspiracy-laced politics in America

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  Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’

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  Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia

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  Is America headed toward dictatorship?

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  How Rupert Murdoch built an empire and broke his family