come on! come on, come on, what are you staring for? come on! robinson apparently tired, punched with a fairly well and rocked jake lamotta right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor find a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all the black and white gore. the violence of the flashbulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty purposefully, he didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, never went down, man. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing because it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really unde
blue velvet, those films are explicitly about how things look are not the way they really are. you have to understand, this was when ronald reagan became president, and the idea was that after all sorts of traumas, particularly watergate and vietnam, we healed, but as the public pronouncement is, we re good again, our movies are telling us, no we re not. no, we are not. wendy? i m home. i play this game. all your favorite filmmakers, alive or dead, were opening a movie on the same day, which movie would you see first? and for me, it would stanley kubrick, because you re gonna see something you never saw before, and he did that in, think about it, every genre. he s gonna make a horror movie, it s gonna be the horror movie done in a way that you would not expect. to me, the shining isn t