Rumble Fish (1983) Blu-Ray Release
With all the debate and discussions surrounding the recent Sight & Sound poll I was unsurprised at being asked for my top ten list of the greatest films ever made by my fellow colleagues amongst the internet film community. It’s a thankless, impossible task as you simply have to omit absolute, solid gold masterpieces and the work of core, unimpeachable all time favourite directors – including the likes of Tarkovsky, Leone, Malick, Bresson and Kurosawa for me – especially if you vote with your heart and not your head as I did. I have however constructed a mental picture of my top twenty which fixes some of these deeply tragic oversights, and was delighted to see that one of my later choices, Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish has an imminent Blu-Ray release and a fairly intriguing little write-up in todays Guardian;
I think even as a younger cineaste I just loved the photography, the European expressionist influences (not that I understood such a phrase back then of course) and Rourke’s super cool, doomed performance as the Motorcycle Boy, way back when before he got bloated and boxing. Stewart Copeland’s jaunty, prancing score was also a refreshing change from the orchestral string based aural stylings of the period, and eighties Dennis Hooper is always a treat as well.
Nice hair Nick. It’s only know that I can look back, a little older and wiser, and see from just a few youtube clips the influence that Bergman, Murnau and as always Welles had on Coppola. So yes, I’ve been coyly teasing you with the actual list but I have to wait until my Sound On Sight colleagues publish the final results, I should be helping them out with some capsule reviews of the exalted winners as well. I’ve also just put my accreditation in for this years London Film Festival so it’s all go at the moment, with a couple of special Hitchcock events over the next three or four days. Finally I’m getting very excited by this which has been slowly gaining a real momentum as one of those slightly under the radar, possible films of the year, I’m hearing Malick being thrown about with abandon and it stormed Sundance, one of our Australian correspondents saw it at the Melbourne International Film festival so I’m waiting for him to report back…
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