English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.Program from 2004 featuring veteran boxers reminiscing about La Motta.Television interview from 1981 with actor Cathy Moriarty and the real Vikki La Motta.Three short programs highlighting the collaboration between Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro.Fight Night, a making-of program featuring Scorsese and key members of the cast and crew.New video essays by film critics Geoffrey O’Brien and Sheila O’Malley.Three audio commentaries, featuring Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker director of photography Michael Chapman, producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, casting director Cis Corman, music consultant Robbie Robertson, and others and boxer Jake La Motta and screenwriters Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader.One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features.New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.‘Raging Bull – The Making Of’ by Jay Glennie is available to pre-order from coattail-publications. Writing the book, and choosing the images and ephemera to adorn it, has been a rare privilege and honour.
Raging Bull marked Scorsese’s fourth collaboration with De Niro, and in the four decades since its release it has lost none of its ability to astonish. Interviewing Bob, Marty, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, John Turturro, producer Irwin Winkler, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and many others, revealed how they dissected a seemingly self-destructive man, whose primary form of communication was through violence, and gave us unquestionably one of the greatest films of all-time. But De Niro felt there was something within the life of former champ Jake LaMotta that had real cinematic possibilities and began a war of attrition on Scorsese, which ultimately saw the director acquiesce. Scorsese’s passion outside of film was music, not sport. In fact, any form of sport was of little interest, with the director stating ‘if there was a ball involved then forget it.’ “The idea of, ‘Let’s get two guys into the ring and let them hit each other,’ was something I didn’t – couldn’t – grasp,” he has said. Initially directing a movie about boxing did not appeal to Martin Scorsese.
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