Rumble Fish (1983) The film is notable for its avant-garde style with a film noir feel, shot on stark high-contrast black-and-white film, using the spherical cinematographic process with allusions to French New Wave cinema and German Expressionism. | Back to 80s

On this day 42 years ago, Rumble Fish (1983), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released in the U.S. "’Rumble fish’ (1983) was an opportunity to make something a little wilder, a little more experimental that just didn’t tell the same old methods over and over again. I wanted to make a kind of anarchistic film about youth." Francis Ford Coppola | History of Cinema