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Were the actors intimidated to be directed by the guy who created Travis Bickle [of Taxi Driver] and Jake La Motta [of Raging Bull...
...four-film set of prime Scorsese features) still packs a wallop as maybe the finest of all boxing dramas. For its silver-anniversary edition, the director has added six fascinating mini-documentaries and three audio tracks with no fewer than 13 commentators (including the film's subject, Jake La Motta, now 83). But the movie stands on its own, undefeated. It's psychodrama with grand-opera intensity and a knockout punch...
DIED. TIBERIO MITRI, 74, Italian former European middleweight boxing champion whose gritty 1950 title fight against Jake La Motta was immortalized in the film Raging Bull, after falling under a train; in Rome. Known as the "Trieste Tiger," Mitri held the European title in 1949 and 1954. After he retired in 1957, his boyishly handsome face won him a number of film roles, but he spent the latter part of his life in destitution...
...flash back to Hollywood's supposedly Pollyanna past. Rocky Balboa in the original Rocky: he lost. Jake La Motta in Raging Bull: he went nuts. Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees: he died...
...Eugen D'Albert, Moriz Rosenthal, Arthur Friedheim and six others. Even allowing for poor recording quality and the advanced age of some of the performers, what is remarkable is how ordinary most of the playing is. Only the dazzling if sometimes clumsy Rosenthal and the elegant Jose Vianna da Motta would get a second listen today. Friedheim, in particular, is appalling in selections by his mentor and Chopin. Memory does play tricks...