Raging Bull (Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
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Actor: Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Joe Pesci, Robert De NiroDirector: Martin Scorsese
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Raging Bull (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Pound-For-Pound, A Gritty True-Life Tale
Summary: 4 Stars
Here's a gritty, film noir-type story of real-life former boxing champion Jake LaMotta, a film that has features some memorable aspects to it.
Perhaps most memorable is the physical transformation of lead actor Robert De Niro, who gained somewhere around 50 pounds to play LaMotta at the end of this film.
The story moves well with few, if any, lulls and each fight scene is fairly credible although a little too brief. I'd like to have seen more boxing but it's better than having to sit through the overdone action as we saw in the "Rocky" pictures. The black-and-white photography also is excellent in here and makes me wish more modern-day films were done in black-and-white.
Usually the Hollywood actresses are a lot better looking than the real-life people they portray but that's not the case here with LaMotta's wife, Vicki. Cathy Moriarity doesn't hold a candle to the real "Vicki," who was a knockout, a voluptuous woman feature several times in Playboy magazine.
A warning for families: there is excessive profanity throughout this film. If you can stand that constant profane assault on your ears, it's still a very watchable movie. I found this to be one of those films that kept getting better with multiple viewings.
DVD Review: Blue Ray black and white = great
Summary: 5 Stars
Watching a black and white movie in blu ray is unbelievable. This is crisp, sharp and De Niro is as good as it gets.DVD Review: Never Received Product
Summary: 1 Stars
Terrible. Never recieved the product. When I tried to contact the seller they never responed. I will not buy from this person again.DVD Review: Bull on blu is a knock-out!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a blu-ray for film lovers. The film grain has been reproduced beautifully. There is some minor ringing on a few high contrast edges, but other than that nit-pick, this looks just like watching it at the movie theater, but with a pristine print. Looks just as Scorcese intended in gorgeous black and white. One of the greatest films has been given a great restoration and now looks its very best on blu-ray! DVD Review: The GREATEST of the Scorsese and DeNiro films!
Summary: 5 Stars
Of the eight films that Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese have made together, "Raging Bull" remains the GREATEST. Although all of them are GREAT. But how could they not be when you have a collaboration of America's GREATEST actor with one of the all-time GREAT directors.
Anytime there is a paring of Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro it's DYNAMITE! They just work SO WELL together. They are one of the GREAT duos in cinema history. I think by now everybody knows all the stories behind this movie. Including Robert DeNiro's famous weight gain of about 50 pounds so he could more resemble Jake Lamotta.
I keep a list of my "50 Favorite Movies" and I MUST include one DeNiro film in it so I chose "Raging Bull". Premiere magazine said it better than I can when they said of DeNiro's performance: "DeNiro gives a performance that belongs in a museum".
"That's entertainment"
Description of Raging Bull (Special Edition)
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?(r) 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. *1980: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Pesci), Supporting Actress (Moriarty), Cinematography, Sound, Editing (won)Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. He marries a striking young blond (Cathy Moriarty), his sexual ideal, and then terrorizes her with never-ending accusations of infidelity. Jake is as frightening as he is pathetic, unable to control or comprehend the baser instincts that periodically, and without warning, turn him into the rampaging beast of the title. But as Roman Catholic Scorsese sees it, he works off his sins in the boxing ring, where his greatest athletic talent is his ability to withstand punishment. The fight scenes are astounding; they're like barbaric ritual dance numbers. Images smash into one another--a flashbulb, a spray of sweat, a fist, a geyser of blood--until you feel dazed from the pummeling. Nominated for a handful of Academy Awards (including best picture and director), Raging Bull won only two, for De Niro and for editor Thelma Schoonmacher. --Jim Emerson
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