Jake La Motta dead

[Nearly Sane]

Though to be honest I thought he already was.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41339153

[Gordon]

I'm not a boxing fan: but the film was stunning.

[Nearly Sane]

It's an extraordinary piece of work. I have to say I've never warmed to it. Admire it hugely but it's not for me a film to enjoy

[Gordon]

For me, and that it isn't an easy watch, rings a bell somewhere - the contrast (as I see it) between vulnerable and aggressive is utterly compelling.

[Nearly Sane]

Scorsese is, I think, a genius in film directing but I have a visceral difference with his 'world view' and admiration rather than love is all I can offer.

[Shaker]

Arguably not a nice man, but he seemed a man of some self-knowledge, albeit painfully so (it often is):

"Sometimes, at night, when I think back, I feel like I'm looking at an old black-and-white movie of myself.

Not a good movie, either, jerky, with gaps in it, a string of poorly lit sequences, some of them with no beginning and some with no end. No musical score ..."

After the film debuted, he expressed puzzlement as to why he had allowed his life to be depicted, and even worked on set as a consultant.

"When I saw the film I was upset. I kind of look bad in it," he told a reviewer.

"Then I realised it was true. That's the way it was ... It's not the way I am now, but the way I was then."