How the New Hollywood Died

The studio empire strikes back

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) is one of the defining films of the New Hollywood era. (All pictures sourced from The Movie Database).

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls fills much of its 500 pages with unapologetically salacious insider accounts of the sexual, drug-fueled proclivities of some of the most revered filmmakers in American history.

“Schrader took…