Next film club: Raging Bull

As you know, the next film club event is this coming Friday (17 March), and it's the long-awaited Raging Bull showing. The film is a Martin Scorsese classic from 1980, written Paul Schrader (his writing partner on Taxi Driver), and based on the book of the life of professional boxer Jake La Motta, tracing his rise and self-destructive fall. The movie features Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in an Oscar-winning performance.

The film traces the life of the stubborn middle-weight boxing champion as he struggles to be champion. His life passes through successive stages of punishment, compromise, and self-disintegration, due to numerous inner demons. The tale of Jake La Motta's downfall is a reversal of the sentimental, much-loved boxer/hero story in the likes of Rocky. (Much) More detail on Raging Bull here.

This screening is in advance of the ‘Blinded by the Light’ event at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on 29 March where Andrew Jones will give a lecture on the Christian themes in Raging Bull.

The venue is Sveta Graudt’s flat in Bethnal Green. If you want more info on how to get there, email me (address on the Profile page of this blog). For food, please bring a pizza (or something similar - garlic bread maybe too) and something to drink. Snacks, tea etc will be supplied. Come for food from 7pm, and the film will be showing at 8pm.