This week your hosts consider Harmony Korine's infamous 1997 low-budget freak fest GUMMO, a hillbilly elegy of cat-killing, glue-sniffing, eyebrow-shaving and, most memorably, chair-wrestling. Loved and hated by critics, admired by one co-host as a nihilistic suburban teenager and previously avoided by the other, Korine's directorial debut is tough to get one's head around—but they try! Also addressed: Korine's career trajectory, his comic pastiche of a novel, and his legendary appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Film links:

• Gummo at IMDb
• Gummo at Wikipedia
• Gummo at Metacritic
• Gummo official website
• Korine interview in Filmmaker Magazine
• Korine interview in Vertigo
• Korine interview with IndieWire
• Gummo review in AV Club
• Art Threat revisits Gummo
• 366 Weird Movies on Gummo
• Film School Rejects on Gummo
• Little White Lies on what's great about Gummo
• Janet Maslin calls Gummo "worst film of the year"
• Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema
• Korine appearance on Letterman #1
• Korine appearance on Letterman #2
• Korine appearance on Letterman #3
• Why Korine was banned from Letterman
• Rich Hill documentary official website
• A Crack-Up at the Race Riots official website

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