Film
Raging Bull (15)
Dir. Martin Scorsese, US, 1980, 129 mins. Cast. Robert de Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Joe Pesci.
The screening on Tuesday 25th April will include a Screen Talk before the film.
Step back into the ring with Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta, as Martin Scorsese's sprawling boxing masterpiece returns to cinemas in a knockout new 4K restoration. An uncompromising biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta – known as “The Bronx Bull’ and ‘The Raging Bull’ during his brief reign – LaMotta’s early lessons in life were to steal and to fight, but he channelled his tough childhood into the ring. This determination and rage turned him from a young hoodlum into a champion, but his drive for the title, his brutality outside of the ring and his almost-psychotic personal jealousy would destroy his marriage, his deepest friendships and the career he fought to build.
Reuniting two titans of cinema – Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro – following their 1976 masterpiece Taxi Driver, Raging Bull was skilfully adapted from LaMotta’s tell-all memoir by Taxi Driver‘s master screenwriter Paul Schrader.
The Screen Talk will be given by Dr Eddie Falvey, Lecturer at Arts University Plymouth. The Screen Talks series is an Arts University Plymouth Knowledge Exchange project supported by Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Funding for Smaller Providers.
For detailed information about the film's age rating and potential triggering contents, you can visit the BBFC website and search the film title, then scroll down to the “ratings info” section: www.bbfc.co.uk
The screening on Tuesday 25th April will include a Screen Talk before the film.
Step back into the ring with Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta, as Martin Scorsese's sprawling boxing masterpiece returns to cinemas in a knockout new 4K restoration. An uncompromising biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta – known as “The Bronx Bull’ and ‘The Raging Bull’ during his brief reign – LaMotta’s early lessons in life were to steal and to fight, but he channelled his tough childhood into the ring. This determination and rage turned him from a young hoodlum into a champion, but his drive for the title, his brutality outside of the ring and his almost-psychotic personal jealousy would destroy his marriage, his deepest friendships and the career he fought to build.
Reuniting two titans of cinema – Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro – following their 1976 masterpiece Taxi Driver, Raging Bull was skilfully adapted from LaMotta’s tell-all memoir by Taxi Driver‘s master screenwriter Paul Schrader.
The Screen Talk will be given by Dr Eddie Falvey, Lecturer at Arts University Plymouth. The Screen Talks series is an Arts University Plymouth Knowledge Exchange project supported by Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Funding for Smaller Providers.
For detailed information about the film's age rating and potential triggering contents, you can visit the BBFC website and search the film title, then scroll down to the “ratings info” section: www.bbfc.co.uk
