{"id":82799,"date":"2026-02-10T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/at-50-taxi-driver-is-still-a-troubling-reflection-of-our-times\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:13:00","slug":"at-50-taxi-driver-is-still-a-troubling-reflection-of-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/at-50-taxi-driver-is-still-a-troubling-reflection-of-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"At 50, \u2018Taxi Driver\u2019 is still a troubling reflection of our times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 50, \u2018Taxi Driver\u2019 is still a troubling reflection of our times<br \/>\nMartin Scorsese\u2019s\u00a0Taxi Driver\u00a0turned 50 on Sunday.Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Palme d\u2019Or\u00a0at the 1976 Cannes Festival, Scorsese\u2019s searing, hallucinatory portrait of urban alienation is\u00a0widely regarded\u00a0as one of the most important American films of all time.It is also unquestionably one of the most troubling.Read the full story on&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/50-taxi-driver-still-troubling-reflection-times.1123884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At 50, \u2018Taxi Driver\u2019 is still a troubling reflection of our times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 50, \u2018Taxi Driver\u2019 is still a troubling reflection of our times Martin Scorsese\u2019s\u00a0Taxi Driver\u00a0turned 50 on Sunday.Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Palme d\u2019Or\u00a0at the 1976 Cannes Festival, Scorsese\u2019s searing, hallucinatory portrait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}