Blu-ray, DVD Release: Rumble Fish

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 21, 2017
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $26.91
Studio: Criterion

In the 1983 drama Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now) gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions in a tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa.

After releasing the classically styled The Outsiders earlier the same year, the director returned to the work of S. E. Hinton, this time with a self-described “art film for teenagers.”

Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon in Rumble Fish

Graced with a remarkable cast headed by Matt Dillon (Armored), Mickey Rourke (Eureka), and Diane Lane (Trumbo); 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 underscores the movie’s romantic fatalism, Rumble Fish pulsates throughout with genuine love and dread.

Criterion’s director-approved Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film contain the following:

* New 4K digital restoration, 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 on the Blu-ray
* Audio commentary featuring Coppola
* New interviews with Coppola, author and coscreenwriter S. E. Hinton, and associate producer Roman Coppola
* New conversation between Burum and production designer Dean Tavoularis
* Pieces from 2005 about the film’s score and production
* Interviews from 1983 with actors Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and 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
* Trailer
* More!