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Originally Posted by TheDom
Raging Bull - Will be watching some more Marty in anticipation of Silence.
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Oh shit, I forgot about Silence! I wonder if it's come to our little shithole theater yet. Definitely feels like a passion-project for Scorsese, as opposed to the "Scorsese" film-as-mini-genre (Goodfellas, The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street). More Kundun than Taxi Driver, I guess. But still... I loved Kundun.
Raging Bull is one of the best films of the 20th century. Fucking depressing, tragic, hard for me to watch, but goddammit, it's the performance of a lifetime for DeNiro. I often find myself going back and forth between this and Taxi Driver as his peak performance... couldn't tell you where I stand now, but this is definitely one of the best screen performances of all time in my book.