Scorsese: Raging Bull
March 11, 2026
Martin Scorsese: Maestro of Cinema
A skilled boxer’s (Robert De Niro) anger serves him well in the ring, but it threatens his relations with his brother (Joe Pesci), his new wife (Cathy Moriarty) and the Mafia, which wants to control his career. Fight sequences as poetic ecstasy.
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Scorsese was at a low point in mind and body, depleted, anguished, down on himself. Years earlier Robert De Niro had proposed doing a film on Bronx Bull boxer Jake La Motta (1942-2017), and he felt this project could bring his dear friend back to life. Scorsese didn’t care about boxing, but the Italian American family story of a self-tormented man grabbed him. Jake’s seething anger serves him well in the ring, but devastates his personal relations with his brother Joey (Joe Pesci joins the Scorsese film family), his wife Lenora (Theresa Saldana), and the Mafia, who want to control his career. Jake seeks transcendence in a tough and tender love with young Vicki (Cathy Moriarty), but after marrying her his hurtful jealousy threatens their happiness. Like Scorsese, can Jake hit bottom and rise anew? Must grace be earned through suffering? Raging Bull overflows with breathless in-the-moment performances, beautiful black and white images, and the soulful sequences of Scorsese’s new editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who alchemizes three separate boxing matches into bursts of battering impressionism, haunting ballets of blood, sweat, tears.
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Principal Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
- Country: USA
- Year: 1980
- Running Time: 129 min.
- Producer: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
- Screenplay: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
- Cinematographers: Michael Chapman
- Editors: Thelma Schoonmaker
- US Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.