Martin Scorsese was 32 years old when he presented his first real feature film, Mean Streets. The young director met Fellini and talks with Wim Wenders – also back this year.
The consecration will come in 1976. The director presents in official competition Taxi Driver, the pathetic odyssey of a taxi driver in the notorious streets of New York. The film is presented in the Directors' Fortnight, a selection born five years earlier, supposed to be less academic and intended to highlight a more daring cinema.