| | Raging Bull Blu-ray
| Category | Blu-ray DVDs, Alternative-Lifestyle Movies, Dramas Videos, Recommended, Classic, Biography, Essential Cinema, True Story, Rags To Riches, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, Classic Fight Scenes | | Starring | Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Frank Adonis, resa Saldana | | Director | Martin Scorsese | | Costume Designer | Richard Bruno | | Director of Photography | Michael Chapman | | Editor | lma Schoonmaker | | Producer | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff | | Production Designer | Gene Rudolf | | Screenwriter | Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin | | Story | Jake La Motta, Peter Savage, Joseph Carter |
Widescreen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; Dir/Cast Commentary; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Sensormatic Considered by many critics to be the best film of the 1980s, this gritty docudrama about hardheaded prizefighter Jake La Motta is so astonishingly real it seems like the champ's black-and-white home-movie reels have been spliced together. Robert De Niro's Oscar-winning performance is intense and awe inspiring, and Martin Scorsese uses his regular bag of camera tricks to add to the proceedings. The film features a stellar supporting turn by Joe Pesci as La Motta's brother, Joey. With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Oscar winner Robert De Niro. As La Motta rises through the ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown, he falls in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), a gorgeous girl from his Bronx neighborhood. Jake's inability to express his feelings pours out in the ring and eventually takes over his life in his dealings with his brother, Joey (a brilliant Joe Pesci). Irrational jealousy over Vickie, as well as an insatiable appetite, sends him into a downward spiral that costs him his title, his wife, and his relationship with Joey. As the out-of-control fighter, De Niro delivers one of the screen's most unforgettable performances. Pesci is just as intense as Joey, who finally realizes that he is unable to tame his animalistic brother. Cinematographer Michael Chapman shoots the film with a stylish flair that fills the boxing scenes with boundless energy and adds immediacy to the arguments that erupt whenever Jake is outside the ring. Simply put, RAGING BULL is one of American cinema's masterworks. Filmed on location in New York City.
RAGING BULL was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990.
Robert De Niro gained 50 pounds and spent hours learning how to box in order to play Jake La Motta. It was the beginning of a trend among American actors of excessive preparation for film roles. Raging Bull Quotes/Excerpts: "I'm not an animal."--Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) after being thrown in jail on a morals charge at the end of his career Raging Bull Reviews: "...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "RAGING BULL is not simply the greatest boxing movie ever made; Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece is arguably the finest American film released in [that] decade..."
-- Stephen Holden, New York Times "...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "...One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon....It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films..."
-- Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times "...Pesci's performance is the counterpoint to De Niro's, and its equal; their verbal sparring has a kind of crazy music to it....RAGING BULL is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..."
-- Daniel Webb, Total Film "[A] monumental biopic..."
-- Howard Karren, Premiere "[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity."
-- Matthew Leyland, Sight and Sound Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is without a doubt De Niro's ultimate immersion into 'The Method', up there with Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."-- Alan Morrison, Empire Raging Bull | List Price | $34.99 (You save $8.40) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  81725  | | CD Universe Part number | 7793946 | | Catalog number | 113514 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 10, 2009 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 129 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; DTS Sound | | Movie Details | B&W; DTS Digital Surround Sound; Widescreen; Dubbed; DTS Sound; Checkpoint; Sensormatic |
Raging Bull Movie Review  ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC
What can really be said about this classic film which was voted by many critics as the greatest film of the 80's. Scorsese once again proves why he is one of the greatest directors of our time. De Niro also shows why he is one of the greatest actors of our time. Raging Bull is a film which absolutelty cannot be described by words. The only word which I think can describe this film would be "PERFECT". Because that is exactly what this film is. It combines amazing and poetic fight sequences with superb and masterful acting. What amazes me the most is how De Niro had to gain all that weight so he could fit the role for the end of the film. That shows how dedicated and motivated De Niro is as an actor and his commitments and loyalties towards the brilliant Scorsese. This film includes elements of poetry, violence, guilt, sex, torment, anger, jealously, rage and determination which all lead to an amazing story of betrayal, redemption and psychotic behaviour. I once said that Scorsese’s greatest film is Taxi Driver. I would like to take that back, because I truly believe Raging Bull is his greatest film and De Niro delivers the greatest performance of his magnificent carrier as well. You must watch this classic and epic film, as it is voted by the American Film Institute as the 4th greatest film of all time. It is the second greatest film of all time in my opinion!!!
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Outstanding!
Joe Pesci should have gotten an Oscar for this movie. Oh yeah, DeNiro did a great job as well.
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Raging Bull DVD Robert De Niro teams with director Martin Scorsese in this "extraordinarily compelling" (Leonard Maltin) film that introduced unflinching realism to stunned audiences in 1980. An "exceedingly violentas well as poetic" fight picture that maps "the landscape of the soul" (The New York Times),Raging Bull garnered eight Oscar® nominations* and won two, including Best Actor for De Niro. De Niro gives the performance of his career as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty are unforgettable as the brother who falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, and the fifteen-year-old girl who becomes his most prized trophy. A "brilliantly photographed film of extraordinary power and rare distinction" (The Wall Street Journal), Raging Bullis filmmaking at its riveting best.
Source: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Disc Features:
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Dolby Surround - English
Dolby Surround 5.1 - Spanish
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Forced Trailer Park
Documentary: THE BRONX BULL (Making-of Documentary)
Audio Commentary:
1. Director Martin Scorsese and Editor Thelma Schoonmaker
2. Cast & Crew Commentary - Irwin Winkler, Robbie Robertson, Robert Chartoff, Theresa Saldana, John Turturro, Frank Warner, Michael Chapman, Cis Corman
3. Storytellers Commentary - Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader, Jason Lustin, Jake LaMotta
Featurette:
1. Raging Bull: Before the Fight"
2. "Raging Bull: Inside the Ring"
3. "Raging Bull: Outside the Ring"
4. "Raging Bull: After the Fight"
5. "DeNiro vs. LaMotta"
6. "LaMotta Defends Title"
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