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
This movie is neither the anchorman nor the network correspondent, but an actress who many of you will never have seen until now? okay bobby, go back to 9:45, the sound byte in the alley starts. please, bobby, we are pushing. it was the first time i had seen on screen a real female because she was flawed and she was allowed to be human. and, different. and, irascible. difficult. shrill. bossy. there s a lot of words that people use that are pejorative to women that jane craig could kind of inhabit. what i love is polly s character just tears streaming down her face. and then her controlling it like that and getting it together and going forward.