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Raging Bull

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1980
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 129 min.

Martin Scorsese's brutal and bruising masterpiece, from a no-holds-barred script by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, uses the life of 1950s middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta to etch a searing portrait of male violence and self-torment.

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screening times

    • Thursday October 14
    • 9:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Tuesday November 9
    • 10:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Martin Scorsese's brutal and bruising masterpiece, from a no-holds-barred script by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, uses the life of 1950s middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta to etch a searing portrait of male violence and self-torment. In an unforgettable, Academy Award®-winning performance, Robert De Niro plays LaMotta as a man helpless before his own uncontrollable anger, his ferocity in the ring bleeding disastrously over into his domestic life with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) and brother (Joe Pesci). Welcoming his maulings in the ring as penance for his sins, LaMotta's greatest fight is against himself, and the "animal" he fears he is becoming. Rendered in lustrous black and white by cinematographer Michael Chapman (a coolly beautiful contrast to the drama's heat and violence), Raging Bull is Scorsese's most lacerating exploration of the male psyche.

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