We’d love to know what critic called the Oscar-snubbed/Martin Scorsese endorsed, Italian crime drama, “Gomorrah,” “THE GREATEST MAFIA MOVIE EVER MADE,” because this is patently untrue and engages it outright ludicrous hyperbole (oh, it’s this quack), but we suppose it’s good press for a very deserving film.
Mattaeo Garrone’s five-tiered disparate vignettes film wasn’t the best thing we saw at the Toronto International Film Festival and tended to be somewhat overhyped, but it was super solid (we had to just manage expectations a little bit cause people were foaming at the mouth).
People who complain that they’re cities are just filled with multiplex bullshit and MOR mainstream nonsense will be happy to know the film is expanding into 8 more markets; it’s definitely deserving of your hard-earned cash. A lot of it is still centered around the East Coast/New York area, but presumably it has fanned out a little bit before and we hadn’t noticed? We honestly haven’t kept tabs on its release schedule and well, there’s no official homepage pimping the dates and IFC Film’s webpage for it sucks frankly. Hopefully more info will be disseminated soon. In the meanwhile, it expands into these eight new places:
RITZ @ THE BOURSE – Philadelphia, PA
THE MUSIC BOX – Chicago, IL
DETROIT FILM THEATER – Detroit, MI
Landmark’s KENDALL SQUARE – Cambridge, MA
KEW GARDENS Cinemas – Kew Gardens, NY
MALVERNE Cinemas – Malverne, NY
Clearview’s MANHASSET – Manhasset, NY
JACOB BURNS THEATER – Pleasantville, NY
Clearview’s CLAIRIDGE – Montclaire, NJ
PS, apparently “Gomorrah” has been doing incredible box-office business in its limited-release according to Variety.