robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds 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 of the black-and-white gore, the violence of the flash bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty, he purposefully didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing movies, but it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake, based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contr
it felt like life, it felt human, it felt funny. the winner is terms of endearment. jim was into the delicate shades of humanity before it was cool. oh, well, that was a lifetime ago. you look wonderful, you do. what are you up to? people change. well, i hope you ve changed. i hope you have, too. i hope so for your sake because your personality left something to be desired, namely a personality. you look at woody s career. in the 80s, which theoretically should have been past his prime because how can you go on after manhattan ? you think, oh, wait a minute. there s also zelig. there s also broadway danny rose. there s purple rose of cairo. by the time you get to crimes and misdemeanors, woody allen has now expanded his sensibility. it s an ensemble piece, it s got some humor in it and it s got some satire in it, but he s not trying to get a laugh every second. it s a wonderful moral conundrum from a very original standpoint. i think that s why it hold