Gummo (1997)
Part of the Harmony Korine Retrospective season
8:00 p.m. Thursday September 16 2010
Directed by Harmony Korine
Certificate BBFC 18
Length: 89 mins
Language: English
Format: VHS
Korine's directorial debut and a cult film following the success of his writing in Larry Clark's controversial KIDS. Also starring Chloe Sevigny (and Rosario Dawon), GUMMO is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes depicting the hopeless, nihilistic lives of the residents of a small Ohio town, Xenia, previously stricken by a tornado.
A "white trash nightmare" full of ultra-dark realism and positively demented humanism, GUMMO i…s enthralling and disturbed.TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Hg8bIFu-A
PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
Nominated for the Grand Prix Asturias Best Feature award at the Gijón International Film Festival in 1997.
Winner of the Special Jury Award at the Gijón International Film Festival in 1997.
Winner of the Open Palm Award - Special Mention at the Gotham Awards in 1998.
Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 1998.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Award - Honorable Mention at the Venice Film Festival in 1997.
Other films in the season:
Thursday 2 September 2010
Trash Humpers (18) (2010)
7:30 p.m.
Korine's latest and an excoriating attack on the American Dream. ‘It’s a fearless soul that makes a film like Trash Humpers’- Little White Lies.
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Thursday 9 September 2010
Mister Lonely (2008)
8:00 p.m.
Written by Korine in collaboration with his brother Avi, Mister Lonely follows a young American living in Paris and working as a Michael Jackson lookalike.
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Sunday 12 September 2010
Julien Donkey Boy (1999)
8:00 p.m.
Julien Donkey-Boy concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family.
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Thursday 16 September 2010
Gummo (1997)
8:00 p.m.
Korine's directorial debut and a cult film.
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