Raging Bull (New 4K Restoration) - with Thelma Schoonmaker In Person
October 10, 2024
The searing study of Italian American Jake LaMotta, 1949-51 middleweight boxing champion of the world, Raging Bull is a masterpiece for Scorsese, actor Robert De Niro (Oscar) and editor Thelma Schoonmaker (Oscar).
Academy Award-winning editor and longtime Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker scheduled to attend.
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Enchanted Evenings: The Boundless Cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The British Film Institute, SIFF, and Greg Olson Productions present 10 restored Powell and Pressburger films weekly on Wednesdays from September 18 to November 20 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
This screening is included with the purchase of a series pass for Enchanted Evenings: The Boundless Cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Individual tickets also available.
LaMotta is a man of flaming emotions, which serve him well in the ring, but damage his life with his Bronx beauty wife (Cathy Morriarty) and his loving but exasperated brother (the rewarding Scorsese-Joe Pesci alliance begins). Jake’s pig-headed passions hurt him as much as anyone, but his suffering might be prelude to redemption. Intense human drama is infused with artistic grandeur, as a lone figure shadowboxes to Muscagni’s achingly beautiful Cavalleria Rusticana music, and the fight sequences are more raw ballets than bullfights. Michael Powell was with his future wife Thelma Schoonmaker and Scorsese during production, and is credited with suggesting that the film should be in black and white. Powell felt the film was “absolutely superb. The most touching are the love scenes, the inarticulate desires of LaMotta, his jealousies, his love. It’s one of the most romantic films ever made. And the editing, the varying camera speeds. There are hundreds of cuts in the boxing scenes, hundreds."
—Greg Olson
- 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
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.