Raging Bull

Rating: 8/10 (8 January 2006)

As far as shooting in B&W, it seems the only way that this movie could have been made ...my question is would it have been better with a red filter, creating contrast. Check out Paper Moon footage against this very shadowy movie, or even some Orsen Wells films. The red filter used on these movies creates a sharpness and a contrast that is missing. However, the movie does represent the film making techniques of the time with a "Casablacaish" mystique. The characters fade into each other, and the outstanding acting becomes the central focus. Scorcesse's camera angles are the best since Kubrick, when LaMotta goes down with the three-hundred sixty degree camera shot, it precludes Spike Lee's signature move.