Perhaps the best-known chronicle of this era of filmmaking is Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1998). This is the story of the making of Raging Bull.What was the “New Hollywood”? And is it a useful category or superficial shorthand? It’s arguably easy enough to make a case for the former: certainly, the history of American cinema now has the films and the directors to support the assertion that a strong current of visionary, personal filmmaking ran through the output of the dying studio system starting in the late 1960s, and ending after the memorable box-office debacle of Michael Cimino’s critically drubbed epic Heaven’s Gate (1980). From the editing room to the Oscar® ceremony, the story is told of a director's quest to tell the story of America's most explosive boxer. After the credits, the second disc 'The Bronx Bull documentary' continues the story of Raging Bull with interviews made especially for this edition and a fascinating and revealing look at the production of the film.Īs part of this unique DVD of Raging Bull, Thelma Schoonmaker - whose editing was responsible for one of the two Oscars® awarded to the film - provides a remarkable scene-by-scene look at the making of this classic production, and in particular the amazing fight scenes that made film history. The vivid, brutal and heartfelt fight scenes are famously realistic.įor this Special Edition, Jake la Motta's tragic closing speech does not mean the end of the story. Ragrng Bull 1s is easily the most brilliant work ever to emerge from the collaboration of Scorsese and DeNiro.ĭeNiro lives amazingly well in the role of a man in whom the beast within him lurks beneath the surface, always ready to erupt.
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