Top cast:Jackie Earle Haley,Patrick Wilson,Carla Gugino
Director:Alfred Cohn
Genre:Music
Region:Italy
Year:2001
Storyline:Joshua firing shots at him - he survived the attempt on his life due to his bulletproof vest, although he appeared to have died.The camp inhabitants are building one link in the infamous Bangkok-Rangoon "death railway."A newly arrived regiment of defeated British POWs is marched into the camp from the Southeast Asian Burmese/Siamese jungle - it is 1943.]It was a surprise that the nominated director Norman Jewison failed to take home the Best Director Oscar for the celebrated, seminal late 1960s film - instead Mike Nichols won the award (presumably because he had failed to win as Best Director he previous year forWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)).In the film's brutal, no-holds-barred look at the gladiatorial sport of boxing in documentary-style, B/W newsreel footage, La Motta unsparingly engages other boxers in the ring in some of the most realistic, visceral, bloody, and brutal yet stylized boxing scenes ever filmed - with sweat and blood spraying out of the ring, devastating blows, and flashing - actually exploding - camera bulbs.