Raging Bull (1980), and Rebecca Miller on Mr Scorsese (2025)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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It's a Martin Scorsese special episode of the Film Stories podcast, kicking off with the tale behind 1980's immense Raging Bull. This is the film the Scorsese for a long time didn't want to make, but Robert De Niro did. It was also the film that involved some trading off with Rocky II to get the money to make in the first place. And it'd involve De Niro going to extreme lengths to get his Oscar-winning performance right. Martin Scorsese is also the subject of five-part Apple TV documentary series Mr Scorsese, that's been directed by Rebecca Miller. She joins Simon to chat about how the documentary came together, the five year path to getting it made, and nuns... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:28.0	Thanks, Canva.
0:30.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:32.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:34.9	A very warm welcome to the latest episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:39.6	Come with me.
0:41.8	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:45.1	And movies.
0:46.3	Movies that had stories.
0:48.0	That the story just sucks them in.
0:50.4	This is just the beginning.
0:53.0	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:59.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:04.0	I am Simon Brew.
1:05.1	That's always that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:08.5	The aim of the podcast, well, it's given away by the title.
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