The director, screenwriter and stars of the 1976 classic film spoke about its making and parallels to the internet age at New York’s Tribeca film festival It’s a half-century-old film so darkly prophetic and viscerally relevant that even its makers are still unpacking it. “It’s a sense of being isolated, it’s about being lonely and not being able to communicate or connect,” said Taxi Driver ’s director, Martin Scorsese , last night. “For me, that’s universal. It’s always going to speak to young