Rumble Fish (The Criterion Assortment) [DVD]

Like a dream
What a work of art! I LOVED this film. The camera angles, the style, the feel, the vibe…sure…the story isn’t incredibly complex, but Coppola was looking to evoke a mood. Dennis Hopper is always superb…a fetching Diane Lane, a brooding and aloof Mickey Rourke…a young Nick Cage…brilliantly captured cinematography…please offer more like this Amazon.

A Must Own
I always trip this movie bombed. I think it’s one of those flicks you have to see while you drink beer.Fantastically shot and Dillion and Rourke and even Hopper all slay. If you own the Outsiders, which I do, you kind of have to get this also, though they are Very different movies. This one is more of an art film, before there were art films.

satisfyingly complex masterpiece of brotherhood and finding oneself
It’s humbling writing a review for a masterpiece of film.Instead of giving a series of gushing statements I’ll simply say that while most films are meant to evoke romance, thrill, intensity (it’s fair to say that sums up 90% of American cinema each year) Rumble Fish stirs complex and far more deeply satisfying emotions.On the surface, this is a movie about a troubled young man living a rebellious and violent life living in the shadow of the legendary Motorcycle Boy, his brother. But when his brother, the Motorcycle Boy, returns to the town he is a changed man, pensive and seemingly distant. The viewer comes to understand that while he was away, he found a deep understanding about himself but that the price for gaining his wisdom requires sacrifice and wrestling with our passions and desires.It’s deeply personal but the tale of brotherhood and growing up with your idol is a theme so common (how many of us grew up with a beloved brother?) and yet so rarely captured.Other themes explored: the nature of violence and peace, authority and oppression, small town escapism, self-awakening, growing up, finding oneself.Worth noting is that the movie is filmed in black and white except for a few select moments. There are both thematic reasons (above) and it also is revealed there is another reason related to the characters of the movie.In the end, the movie will leave you feeling meditative, jarred and yet finding a peace and transcendence you won’t get from your typical Hollywood fare. It may even inspire you to depart on your own journey to find yourself and you will return with appreciation for the sibling love that shaped you.

Masterpiece
I first saw this movie in 1983 when I was 18. I’m a math science engineering type, not the artsy type. But this movie grabbed me in an artsy kind of way if that makes any sense. Fantastic cast , cinematography, music, characters, plot not as strong as those but the whole thing really hangs together. Just watched it again after almost 40 years and had the same reaction, what does that tell you. At the same time my friend when I first watched it was kind of “meh”. So to each their own. Ps. I rarely write reviews but felt compelled to write this one.

Il dvd ricevuto aveva la custodia maciullata (letteralmente) e l’audio solo in inglese, difformemente dall’Ordine.Per fortuna i sottotitoli italiani hanno consentito di gustare comunque questo stupendo film.Tra i più ispirati, a mio parere, di Francis Ford Coppola.Una visione autenticamente poetica, a cominciare dalla fotografia: un bianco e nero ispirato e un taglio fotografico di alto livello; bellissime le inquadrature grandangolari, grandi e nitidissime profondità focali, movimenti di macchina suggestivi.Poi grandi interpreti senza tempo, colti in giovane o giovanissima età – una sorta età dell’innocenza e della purezza, visti i tempi: siamo al 1982 – e in piena forma: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage, Denis Hopper, Tom Waits e Diane Lane.Insomma uno di quei film che suscitano emozioni profonde.Un cinema da rimpiangere!

“RUMBLE FISH” ES UNA DE ESAS GRANDES PELICULAS DE LOS 80. DE ASPECTO VISUAL IMPECABLE, FUE LA SIGUIENTE PELICULA QUE FORD COPPOLA DIRIGIO TRAS “THE OUTSIDERS” (UNA OBRA MENOR PERO QUE TUVO UN GRAN EXITO DE PÚBLICO DEBIDO EN GRAN MEDIDA A SU DESTACADO Y JOVEN REPARTO).RODADA PRACTICAMENTE EN BLANCO Y NEGRO A EXCEPCION DE LOS PECES QUE DAN TITULO A LA PELICULA Y QUE FUERON FOTOGRFIADOS EN COLOR Y UNA SECUENCIA YA HACIA EL FINAL. CON UNA EXCELENTE BANDA SONORA DEL EX COMPONENTE DEL GRUPO “THE POLICE” STEWART COPELAND, Y UN EXTRAORDINARIO REPARTO ENCABEZADO POR MATT DILLON, DIANE LANE, Y NICOLAS CAGE, Y EN EL QUE DESTACAN ESPECIALMENTE LAS INTERPRETACIONES DE MICKEY ROURKE (EL CHICO DE LA MOTO) Y DENNIS HOPPER. LA PELICULA CUENTA ADEMAS CON UNA EXCELENTE ADAPTACION DE LA NOVELA DE LA ESCRITORA NORTEAMERICANA S. E. HINTON.”RUMBLE FISH”, “REBELDES” Y “STREETS OF FIRE” (1984) DE WALTER HILL, SON 3 DE ESAS PELICULAS QUE UNO DEBE VER EN SU JUVENTUD. LA ACTRIZ DIANE LANE INTERVIENE EN LAS 3 PELICULAS Y LOGRA ESTAR ESPECTACULAR EN TODAS ELLAS.