Brutal Attraction: The Making of Raging Bull
Raging Bull began as Robert De Niro’s obsession, but the only man he believed could film it, Martin Scorsese,

 

 

 

 

wasn’t interested—until the director’s near-fatal collapse gave him a visceral connection with the story of troubled boxing champion Jake La Motta. Three decades on, the author tells how one of Hollywood’s great friendships, forged by Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, drove Scorsese’s finest film.

The Blitz director routinely traverses the path between visual art and feature films, navigating a historically treacherous route with envy-inducing ease.

His World War II epic is another virtuoso work in a career full of them.

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