By Ron Pennington On Dec. 19, 1980, Martin Scorsese hit the ring with the R-rated, 206-minute drama Raging Bull. The film racked up eight Academy Award nominations and claimed two wins in the best ...

Discover how a 1980s classic became the film that saved Martin Scorsese’s life and revived Robert De Niro’s legendary career.

Raging Bull prevails as a film about conflicts—most obviously, those within a man whose soul had become dependent on guilt and absolution. LaMotta was never floored by a punch, never counted out ...

De Niro reportedly went from 150 lbs up to 210 lbs, which noticeably took a toll on his health. Director Martin Scorsese mentioned how, when filming the final scenes of Raging Bull, De Niro could be ...

It’s also a more complicated determination for writers. While there is only one actor playing Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, the film credits two screenwriters (Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin).

Martin Scorsese’s 1980 sports film Raging Bull crescendos with a knockout of a fight. In it, the titular Jake LaMotta squares off against Sugar Ray Robinson in a tense, dramatic bout ...

Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese added another iconic movie to his filmography with the 1980 film Raging Bull. But when he didn’t win an Oscar for the highly respected him, Scorsese began to ...

“It’s kinda like Raging Bull and Persona meets Purple Rain,” explains Shults, who wrote the film alongside Tesfaye and Reza Fahim. The film was inspired, in part, by an incident that Tesfaye ...