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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Jay Coyle and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Grace Duffy, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.

This time, continuing our Summer of Scorsese season, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull.

Martin Scorsese is one of the defining directors in American cinema, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that have shaped and defined cinema across generations: Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street. The Summer of Scorsese season offers a trip through his filmography via the IMDb‘s 250.

Jake LaMotta is a boxer who dreams of a shot at the big time. However, Jake does not play by the rules of the game. Over the course of his life and career, Jake struggles to tame the violence inside himself as he proceeds to push those closest to him further and further away.

At time of recording, it was ranked 146th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 25th June 2020.
• Note: On the podcast, Darren accidentally states that Raging Bull followed the dissolution of Scorsese’s first marriage. In fact, it followed the ending of his second marriage to Julie Cameron.
• Note: Darren also repeatedly references United Artists as Universal Artists.
• Raging Bull at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• Ed Power at The Telegraph on the cocaine-fueled folly of New York, New York, November 2019.
• B.L. Panther at The Spool discusses New York, New York, October 2019.
• David Fear at Rolling Stone on the legacy and impact of The Last Waltz, November 2016.
• Robert DeNiro talks to The New Yorker about what drew him to Raging Bull, December 2018.
• Richard Schikel at Vanity Fair discusses the production and development of Raging Bull, March 2010.
• Martin Scorsese discusses the making of Raging Bull with Vanity Fair, April 2019.
• Robert W. Welkos at The Los Angeles Times on how Heaven’s Gate ended an era for Hollywood, June 2004.
• Nicholas Barber at BBC on the strange legacy of Heaven’s Gate on Hollywood, December 2015.
• Roger Ebert talks about cinema as an “empathy machine” at RogerEbert.com, June 2005.
• Vincent Canby at The New York Times reviews Raging Bull, November 1980.
• Bill Higgins at The Hollywood Reporter looks back on the initial reaction to Raging Bull, Devember 2019.
• Michael Koresky at Reverse Shot argues for the emotional power of Raging Bull, December 2011.
• Carlo Rotello at The New York Times on whether Raging Bull eclipsed the real Jake LaMotta, September 2017.
• Chris Klimek at NPR on how Raging Bull portrays Jake LaMotta, September 2017.
• Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair reports on Jake LaMotta’s reaction to seeing Raging Bull for the first time, September 2017.
• Robert DeNiro talks to The New York Times about his career, including working with Jake LaMotta, December 2019.
• Richard Sandomir at The New York Times on the dark and cynical underbelly of the sports biopic, January 2015.
• Richard Brody discusses revisiting Raging Bull in The New Yorker, March 2020.
• Brian O’Flynn on the use of “thug” and “scumbag” as classist insults in The Irish Examiner, March 2018.
• Cathy Moriarty talks to The Guardian about working on Raging Bull, October 2015.
• Cathy Moriarty talks to Black Books about being cast in Raging Bull, November 2010.
• Paul Reynolds at RTÉ on Daniel Kinahan’s efforts to “reinvent” himself through boxing, May 2020.
• Alan Dawson at Insider reports on Daniel Kinahan’s involvement in Irish boxing, July 2020.
• Mary Carolan at The Irish Times on the involvement of Irish paramilitaries in piracy, September 2002.
• John Jupp and Matthew Garrod in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism on the links between organised crime and terrorism in Northern Ireland, November 2019.
• Thelma Schoonmaker discusses editting Martin Scorsese with The Guardian, February 2019.
• Thelma Schoonmaker breaks down a key scene from Raging Bull for Studio 360, February 2017.
• Irwin Winkler shares some stories from his Hollywood career with Associated Press, May 2019.
• Angelica Jade Bastién at The Atlantic argues that Hollywood has ruined method acting, August 2016.
• Robert Pattinson complains to Pajiba that nobody ever method acts as a nice person, November 2019.
• Robert DeNiro discusses his performance style with Salon, March 2012.
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