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DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
New interview with Korine
Conversation from 1997 between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog
Projections episode from 2000 featuring Korine in conversation with Split Screen host John Pierson
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An appreciation by filmmaker Hype Williams

New illustration by Joao Rosa

Finally. I audibly gasped at this one being a 4K release too. Releases like this remind me that I really need to upgrade to an HDR-compatible TV already.

I look forward to revisiting this beautiful film. It’s been too long since I last watched it.

Hype Williams essay is a great touch. lots of creative thinking here, but do wish Harmony had done a full commentary - the Spring Breakers one is awesome

I drove through Nashville in 2021 and went by a lot of these locations. a retrospective tour would've been cool so viewers can see that despite Nashville's obscene gentrification, much of the areas this was shot in look the exact same...

I just love that this film managed to culturally impact the mainstream enough that it provided the one single memorable moment from any of those otherwise terrible X Factor talent shows, when after a performance of a cover version of Roy Orbison's Crying an incensed Louis Walsh refuses to believe that Gummo is a real movie and not something that Simon Cowell just made up! I would love it if Criterion added some of those quotes to their advertising blurb for the film:

"What is the movie? Who was in It? Where did it come from?" - Louis Walsh
"It's not movies you watch at home. Gummo.. is a movie" - Simon Cowell

I like how the cover uses the Aggro Drift aesthetic

I don’t know when he started experimenting with this colorized aesthetic, but it goes back to at least Duck Duck

beamish14 wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:29 pm I like how the cover uses the Aggro Drift aesthetic

Surely it was an economical/useage rights issue-based choice, a la Paris Is Burning, but that's entertainment/branding/I never liked the title card font, either!