Rumble Fish

NOTE: This is a region-1 DVD which requires a region free DVD-player.

In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director’s “art film for teenagers” was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton’s work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders.Graced with a remarkable cast headed by Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Diane Lane; haunting black-and-white visuals that hark back to German expressionism and forward to Coppola’s own Tetro; and a powerful percussive score by Stewart Copeland that underlines the movie’s romantic fatalism, Rumble Fish pulsates throughout with genuine love and dread.

Special features:
– New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Stephen H. Burum and approved by director Francis Ford Coppola, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
– Alternate remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
– Audio commentary featuring Coppola
– New interviews with Coppola, author and coscreenwriter S. E. Hinton, associate producer Roman Coppola, and actors Matt Dillon and Diane Lane
– New conversation between Burum and production designer Dean Tavoularis
– Pieces from 2005 about the film’s score and production
– Interviews from 1983 with Dillon, Lane, actor Vincent Spano, and producer Doug Claybourne
– French television interview from 1984 with actor Mickey Rourke
– Locations: Looking for Rusty James, a 2013 documentary by Alberto Fuguet about the impact of Rumble Fish
– New piece about the film’s existentialist elements
– “Don’t Box Me In” music video
– Deleted scenes, with a new introduction by Coppola
– Trailer
– PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny