Raging Bull / a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Martin Scorsese picture ; produced in association with Peter Savage ; screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin ; producers, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; director, Martin Scorsese.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the book by Jake La Motta, with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. Wide screen (1.85:1). Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. Special features: Three audio commentaries, featuring Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker; director of photography Michael Chapman, producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, casting director Cis Corman, music consultant Robbie Robertson, and others; and boxer Jake La Motta and screenwriters Mardik O'Brien and Paul Schrader; New video essays by Geoffrey O'Brien and Sheila O'Malley; Fight Night, a making-of program featuring Scorsese and key members of the cast and crew; Three short programs highlighting the colloboration between Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro; Television interview from 1981 with actor Cathy Moriarty and the real Vikki La Motta; Interview with Jake La Motta from 1990; Program from 2004 featuring veteran boxers reminiscing about La Motta; Trailer; Essays by poet Robin Robertson and film critic Glenn Kenny. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Mario Gallo, Bernie Allen, Joseph Bono, Lori Anne Flax, Theresa Saldana, Frank Adonis.
Summary:
Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
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