Raging Bull (1980)
Scorsese's 1980 boxing biopic of Jake LaMotta. Black-and-white, Schoonmaker-cut, De Niro at 60 pounds heavier.
Writer: Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in about two weeks while living in his car, and Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ. He was raised in a strict Calvinist household that forbade films until he was seventeen.