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Wickedly Inventive Happy Meal Tie-Ins for Cult Movies
The movie tie-in McDonald’s Happy Meal is one of our most venerable cultural barometers, a big “get” for family movies hoping to market directly to their most vocal consumers. Starting with Star Trek:...
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The Stories Behind 10 Iconic Movie Scenes
Sixty years ago today, Marilyn Monroe stepped on a subway grate and made movie history. She was shooting a film called The Seven-Year Itch in New York City, and the image of her on the grate, the train...
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Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked
Monday night, following screenings at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals, HBO will premiere The 50 Year Argument, the terrific new documentary celebrating 50 years of The New York Review of Books....
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Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro Are Reuniting to Discuss...
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced that to accompany their 40th anniversary screening of Taxi Driver, the film festival will bring together De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Scorsese...
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Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and More on ‘Taxi Driver’ at 40
“Forty years,” Robert DeNiro said, to begin his introduction of the Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th anniversary screening of Taxi Driver. “Every day, for forty fucking years, at least one of you has come...
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A New York Taxi Driver’s Photographic Portrait of the City from His Window
Photographer David Bradford spent his early life studying dance, music, and illustration. After leaving a job in Saks Fifth Avenue’s advertising department, he became a freelancer hoping to find more...
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How Scorsese’s ‘King of Comedy’ Influenced a Generation of Film, Television,...
Roger Ebert’s original review of The King of Comedy is a useful tool for understanding exactly how indifferently Martin Scorsese’s comedy/drama was received upon its release – coming as it does from...
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10 Great “Accidental Documentaries” of New York City’s Sketchiest Era
Today, New York’s Film Forum begins a fabulous new retrospective series, “Ford to City: Drop Dead – New York in the 70s,” which draws its title from the notorious New York Daily News headline...
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NYC Taxi Driver’s Photos of Passengers Capture Snapshots of the City in the ’80s
When you’re driving strangers around all day in New York City, you’re bound to have a few tales to tell. Driving a taxi is an adventure that California boy and MFA grad Ryan Weideman — whose work we...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: Janet Jackson, ‘Taxi Driver,’ and Really, Really Fake News
Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, fresh reappraisals of an...
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