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ADDITION: Fun City Editions Blu-ray (August 2021): Fun City Editions have transferred Frank Perry's Rancho Deluxe to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "New 2K restoration from its 35mm interpositive". The 1080P image is characterized by heavy, consistent, grain textures. I don't know if this is accurate to the theatrical presentation but I do know that it looks very pleasing to my eye with rich colors and a thick film-like appearance. I love the grain and it is dominant here.

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On their Blu-ray, Fun City Editions use a DTS-HD 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. Rancho Deluxe has aggressive moments from liberal use of a helicopter to gunshots. The lossless track exports some bass. The film's music is credited to Jimmy Buffett (surprisingly his only feature composition credit.) Written and performed by Buffet are the Rancho Deluxe theme, Livingston Saturday Night, Left Me With a Nail to Drive, Wonder Why You Ever Go Home, and Can't Remember When I Slept Last. He is the performer in the bar scene. NOTE: Charlene Dallas breaks into song at dinner table until hushed by her uncle played by Slim PIckens - it was Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and sung, albeit briefly, by Patti D'Arbanville. It all sounds solid - clean and consistent. Fun City Editions offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Fun City Editions Blu-ray offers a commentary by Nick Pinkerton. His encyclopedic research exports pretty much every filmography of the major cast and crew. Nick discusses Rancho Deluxe's themes regarding an acute awareness of the west becoming 'synthetic', a tourist attraction - an imitation of itself, the coming of consumerism to the mid west comparing Rancho Deluxe, tangentially, to Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. NOTE: The commentary seems to go silent from about 1-hour 10-minutes for 4 minutes. This is through the outdoor oral sex scene with Charlene Dallas and Harry Dean Stanton. Fans always appreciate an interview, even Zoom/Skype, with Jeff Bridges. It runs for 20-minutes as he recalls the production. There is also a video interview with Tom McGuane the writer of Rancho Deluxe. It runs for 10-minutes. There is an Easter Egg (quasi-hidden supplement) with 1/2 a minute worth of a Harry Dean Stanton bonus scene that you can access at the very top of the menu supplements moving above the commentary listing. Fun City also include four extra TV version scenes, a trailer and an image gallery. The package has a 12-page booklet with an essay by Gavin Smith - it includes color photos.

Frank Perry's Rancho Deluxe has an odd comedy angle but worked for me as a carefree crime-caper. Certainly more passive than Hell Or High Water with rough-and-tumble survivalist cowboys plus also maintaining similar themes of the disintegration of the West as in 1962's Lonely are the Brave with Kirk Douglas. It's really like neither but I like Perry's ability to shift tones, have subtle satirical dialogue and keep the story less predictable. I would watch Jeff Bridges in almost anything. The Fun City Editions Blu-ray is great and the Pinkerton commentary really helped me appreciate it more after my first viewing. I can see this being a sleeper-favorite in our year-end poll. Absolutely recommended!

Gary Tooze