New Criterion! Yeah! That’s the way I like to start a Monday morning.
I don’t know a thing about this film, Gomorrah! How did I miss this one last year? It looks fantastic. This is how Criterion describes it:
- “Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of undercover Italian reporter Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld (known as the Camorra), Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Filmed with an exquisite detachment interrupted by bursts of violence, Gomorrah is a shattering, socially engaged true-crime story from a major new voice in Italian cinema.”
Sold!
Here are the Gomorrah details and the late-released cover art for Mira Nair‘s brilliant Monsoon Wedding. Details of that release are outlined in our previous post found here: New Criterion Blu-ray Announcements: Howards End, Wings of Desire, Monsoon Wedding
GOMORRAH
(November 24, 2009 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 2.35:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed stereo
Special Features:
- • New high-definition transfer, supervised and approved by director Matteo Garrone (with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Five Stories, a 60-minute documentary on the making of Gomorrah
• New video interviews with Garrone and actor Toni Servillo
• Interviews with writer Roberto Saviano and actors Gianfelice Imparato and Salvatore Cantalupo
• Deleted scenes
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Chuck Stephens
[...] The first in the deal was the already announced Gomorrah, hitting shelves on November 24th (full details on Criterion’s Gomorrah Blu-ray release here). This will be followed by Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale and, rumour has it, Steven [...]