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Raging Bull

October 2023

  • the films of Martin Scorsese

    My month with Marty: what I learned watching all 26 of Scorsese’s movies

    What is the thread that runs through the revered director’s films? Ahead of his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, a critic watches all of them to find out

September 2023

  • Robert De Niro.

    You talkin’ to me? Why Robert De Niro as an 80-year-old Uber driver is advert gold

    Some say he’s sold out, but others may feel the Hollywood star’s advertising career is the perfect way to preserve his legacy

April 2023

  • Raging Bull.

    Raging Bull review – still packs a punch like no boxing movie before or since

    Scorsese’s brutally nihilist biopic of the self-hating, self-sabotaging middleweight champion remains full of despairing beauty and unforgettable performances

March 2023

  • Stills from Bring It On, Bull Durham, Ali and Hoop Dreams

    Screen play: our writers pick their favourite sports movies

    To celebrate the release of Creed III, Guardian writers have made the case for why their favourite sports movie should also be yours

June 2021

  • MARTIN SCORSESE<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett Collection / Rex Features RAGING BULL, director Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, 1980 MARTIN SCORSESE UK, EIRE, TURKEY, SOUTH AFRICA, HONG KONG, CROATIA ONLY No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only DIRECTOR ON SET

    ‘I made it as if this was the end of my life’: Scorsese on Raging Bull at 40

    At a Tribeca film festival event, the director and his star Robert De Niro discussed the legacy of the greatest boxing movie ever made

March 2021

  • Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci

    The making of a heavyweight: Scorsese and De Niro behind the scenes of Raging Bull – in pictures

    The award-winning biopic of Jake LaMotta was released 40 years ago. With these exclusive images, Jay Glennie, who interviewed the cast and crew for a new book, reveals secrets of the film’s shoot

November 2020

  • 'RAGING BULL' FILM - 1980<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.United/Everett / Rex Features ( 556799e ) 'Raging Bull', Kevin Mahon, Martin Denkin, Robert De Niro 'RAGING BULL' FILM - 1980

    Raging Bull at 40: Scorsese's brutal boxing saga still bruises

    Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning performance as Jake LaMotta remains chilling yet it’s a defiant refusal to soften a deeply unlikable lead character that hits hardest

October 2020

  • Michael Chapman filming the period drama The Wanderers (1979), directed by Philip Kaufman.

    Michael Chapman obituary

    Cinematographer whose work in the Martin Scorsese films Raging Bull and Taxi Driver exhibited breadth and grandeur

February 2020

  • Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).

    From the Guardian archive
    Raging Bull: the punch in Scorsese's ring cycle – archive, 1981

    14 February 1985: Derek Malcolm interviews the director of Raging Bull who says the film finishes off what he started to say in Mean Streets

February 2018

  • Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time?

    Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time?

    Stewart? Poitier? Scofield? De Niro? Day-Lewis? Our chief critic selects a winner from his nominees – and reveals who you chose as your people’s champion

September 2017

  • Jake LaMotta

    Sportblog
    Jake LaMotta was not a great champion but one of the toughest, a boxing beast

  • Compelling ... Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.

    Film blog
    Jake LaMotta: a flawed character alchemised by Raging Bull into a mythical figure

May 2017

  • RAGING BULL<br>Title: RAGING BULL   Pers: DE NIRO, ROBERT / LA MOTTA, JAKE   Year: 1980   Dir: SCORSESE, MARTIN   Ref: RAG006CV   Credit: [ UNITED ARTISTS / THE KOBAL COLLECTION ]

    A brush with greatness
    The day I met Jake LaMotta, 'greatest middleweight that ever lived', at his favourite restaurant in New York

  • Composite of the films Fierce Creatures, The Sting, Runaway Bride and Chasing Amy

    When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't

January 2017

  • Groundhog Day film

    Inspiring culture for 2017
    From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift

    Supposedly ‘inspirational’ films tend to leave our critic reaching for the sick bag. He finds defeated boxers, desperate weathermen and boozy, cantankerous widowers far more uplifting

November 2016

  • Bleed For This, film

    Bleed For This: Miles Teller's boxing movie is no knockout

    Despite some heavyweight performances, this pugilist biopic is overshadowed by some very distinguished forebears

March 2016

  • The Lego Movie 2014

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best Oscar snubs

    Last week we brought you our pick of the 10 best Oscar snubs. Here you suggest what other films should have taken the prize

February 2016

  • Jake

    The balls of wrath
    How Sugar Ray Robinson made Jake La Motta his bloody Valentine in 1951

    There was no love lost when Sugar Ray Robinson met Jake La Motta for their sixth fight on Valentine’s Day 1951. La Motta took an almighty beating but he held on to the ropes, his pride and the knowledge that he would not be put down

January 2016

  • Robert De NIro

    Five best moments
    Robert De Niro: five best moments

    With a sparky new role in David O Russell’s Miracle Mop biopic Joy, here is a look back at the Oscar winner’s finest performances

October 2015

  • Robert De Niro and Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull

    Raging Bull's Cathy Moriarty: 'I was 17 and had no fear'

    She was unforgettable alongside De Niro as the wife of boxer Jake LaMotta. The acotr talks about their on-set yelling matches – and her new co-star David Beckham
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