Gummo - Criterion Collection Blu-Ray

Harmony Korine's debut film is a bold and lyrical portrayal of the underside of rural America and an elegy in the Southern Gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Filmed in Korine's hometown of Nashville—which stands in for tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they roam the city, sniff glue, and chase stray cats, where every local encounter is charged with vaudeville-like anarchy as well as deep pathos. Gummo is at once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, and is a unique portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, surrounded by poverty and the impoverished, alienated spiritual life of late 20th-century America.

SPECIAL EDITION ON BLU-RAY WITH DIRECTOR'S APPROVAL

• New digital 4K restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

   

• New interview with Korine

   

• 1997 conversation between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog

   

• Split screen: Projections episode from 2000 with Korine in conversation with host John Pierson

   

• Trailer for the film

   

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

   

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Carlos Aguilar and an appreciation by filmmaker Hype Williams

   

• New illustration by Joao Rosa