Bruce Isaacs does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Martin Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the best living film directors. As a major retrospective of his work opens at ACMI, film scholar Bruce Isaacs dissects five classic Scorsese scenes.
In episode four, Isaacs analyses an intense and emotionally charged scene from Raging Bull, 1980.
View episode one: Who’s That Knocking At My Door?
View episode two: Mean Streets
View episode three: Taxi Driver
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