De Niro Vs. Pacino III: The 1980s

De Niro Vs. Pacino III: The 1980s

De Niro‘s first major role of the decade was to team up again with Martin Scorsese on the epic boxing biography, Raging Bull. De Niro played troubled pugilist Jake la Motta, from promising professional through to post retirement entertainer. La Motta’s story would see not […]

De Niro Vs. Pacino I: The Late 1970s

De Niro Vs. Pacino II: The Late 1970s

Will Speare continues his overview of the Pacino/De Niro argument… By 1975 Al Pacino had already made two career-defining movies in career-defining roles, and blessed as he was, he continued to excel. Next up was Dog Day Afternoon, which was another Oscar winning film directed […]

De Niro and Pacino

De Niro Vs. Pacino I: The Early 1970s

Above: Robert De Niro (image by Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com) and Al Pacino (image by Serge Rocco / Shutterstock.com) Widely recognized as the greatest screen actors working today, perhaps in the history of celluloid; I propose over the next several weeks to look at the evidence, compare […]