The Criterion Collection has announced that it will release '
Gomorrah' on Blu-ray on November 24, day-and-date with the DVD. 'Gomorrah' is an unglamorized, multi-faceted exposé of the
Camorra, the crime underworld in Naples. It won the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival. The BD will feature a new high-definition transfer, supervised and approved by director Matteo Garrone, with an uncompressed stereo soundtrack.
Special features include:
- 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
Also included will be a booklet featuring an essay by critic Chuck Stephens.
Note that this movie was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom by Optimum Releasing on a region-B edition (see blu-ray.com's review by Svet Atanasov
here).