Boxing films perhaps don’t always get their due as a genre, which is all about to change as the BFI Southbank kicks off a new season called The Cinematic Life of Boxing.
Including classics such as Rocky and Raging Bull, along with cult favourites like Jawbone and TwentyFourSeven, and documentaries both old and new (more on which in a minute), the season is going to be a chance to show exactly why boxing has proved to be cinematic in a way that other sport films (football, for one) haven’t.
