Raging Bull

Raging Bull review – still packs a punch like no boxing movie before or since

Scorsese’s brutally nihilist biopic of the self-hating, self-sabotaging middleweight champion remains full of despairing beauty and unforgettable performances

Peter Bradshaw

12, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM

Screen play: our writers pick their favourite sports movies

To celebrate the release of Creed III, Guardian writers have made the case for why their favourite sports movie should also be yours

Scott Tobias, Adrian Horton, Bryan Armen Graham, Benjamin Lee, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Andrew Lawrence, Lauren Mechling, Radheyan Simonpillai, Veronica Esposito, Andrew Pulver and Charles Bramesco

04, Mar, 2023 @7:16 AM

‘I made it as if this was the end of my life’: Scorsese on Raging Bull at 40

At a Tribeca film festival event, the director and his star Robert De Niro discussed the legacy of the greatest boxing movie ever made

Charles Bramesco

21, Jun, 2021 @2:34 PM

Raging Bull at 40: Scorsese's brutal boxing saga still bruises

Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning performance as Jake LaMotta remains chilling yet it’s a defiant refusal to soften a deeply unlikable lead character that hits hardest

Guy Lodge

13, Nov, 2020 @8:01 AM

Michael Chapman obituary

Cinematographer whose work in the Martin Scorsese films Raging Bull and Taxi Driver exhibited breadth and grandeur

Ryan Gilbey

04, Oct, 2020 @4:43 PM

Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time?

Stewart? Poitier? Scofield? De Niro? Day-Lewis? Our chief critic selects a winner from his nominees – and reveals who you chose as your people’s champion

Peter Bradshaw

21, Feb, 2018 @1:00 PM

Jake LaMotta was not a great champion but one of the toughest, a boxing beast | Kevin Mitchell

The fine details of Jake LaMotta’s brief reign as world middleweight champion are not always absorbed in recollections of his career, mainly because one of the greatest films of all time painted him in classically Shakespearean mode

Kevin Mitchell

21, Sep, 2017 @1:06 PM

Jake LaMotta: a flawed character alchemised by Raging Bull into a mythical figure

LaMotta was immortalised on screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, but their brilliant 1980 movie remade boxing history in the process

Peter Bradshaw

21, Sep, 2017 @5:00 AM

The day I met Jake LaMotta, greatest middleweight ever, in New York

It’s late September 1997 and Mark Collings, rookie boxing reporter, blags an interview with his hero for Esquire magazine

Mark Collings

21, May, 2017 @5:00 AM

When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't

The team behind Oscar-nominated crime thriller Hell and High Water have just announced a new project, but what can they learn from other re-teams that have and haven’t been successful?

Noah Gittell

01, May, 2017 @11:30 AM

From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift

Supposedly ‘inspirational’ films tend to leave our critic reaching for the sick bag. He finds defeated boxers, desperate weathermen and boozy, cantankerous widowers far more uplifting

Peter Bradshaw

01, Jan, 2017 @6:00 PM