There is a haunting quality to Taxi Driver that lingers. Fifty years after the film’s premiere, Robert De Niro’s performance remains explosive, his increasingly disturbed Travis Bickle harkening back to a gritty New York that feels light years away from the hyper-polished, over-marketed city we inhabit today. There are many reasons Scorsese’s fifth film has endured in cultural discourse: the devotional reverence of Criterion Collection subscribers everywhere; the unease surrounding the casting of Jodie Foster, 12 at the time, as a child prostitute; the Manosphere analyzers who continue to unpack Travis’s darkness. The film has a powerful undertow, and should make for a rich conversation at the Tribeca Film Festival, where festival co-founder De Niro chats with Scorsese and Foster ahead of a screening. —Jeanne Malle