Taxi Driver

I finally saw Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese's film starring Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster as a 12-year-old streetwalker.

It was amazing to see 1970s New York, gritty and rundown, as most of the places where this movie was shot were razed to make swanky high-rise building worth millions. Travis (De Niro) takes Betsy (Shepherd) to Child's Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle --- that is gone and replaced with the Time Warner Center, near my old job at the Trump International Tower (also still there.)

That movie was only 33 years ago but "looks as if it might as well have been lensed on Mars", according to this article in The Village Voice:

http://www.gothiccabinetcraft.com/inthenews.php?mid=&doc_id=1101334463