The two-disc collector's edition of Raging Bull is obviously the blood-red capote in Martin Scorsese's latest box set. But that's not to say the three other seemingly minor films don't deserve further examination. Boxcar Bertha, for instance, which stars Barbara Hershey as the notorious hillbilly train robber, followed producer Roger Corman's '70s indie formula to a T. Consequently, the scrappy filmmaker hated it and decided to go it alone, starting with the groundbreaking Mean Streets. Years later, while still riffing on the success of Taxi Driver, he got a little experimental in New York, New York by combining the artifice of old Hollywood with gritty NY sensibilities. It bombed. However, after he released all three hours of the director's cut, critics were forced to eat their words.

Also included in this collection is The Last Waltz. This is the Band's farewell show, featuring Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Neil Young, who performed his entire set with the mother of all coke boogers hanging out of his nostril. The 8-ball crusty had to be manually rotoscoped out, frame by painful frame. As for the ominous title, shortly after the 1976 concert, punk came in and kicked hippie music to the curb. » Sarah Rowland