Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 17, 2016
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Criterion
A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma, Something Wild stars Carroll Baker (Baby Doll, The Carpetbaggers), in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic played by Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me Deadly)-whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn.
Carroll Baker stars in Something Wild.
Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York’s Actors Studio, which transformed American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
With astonishing location and claustrophobic interior photography by Eugene Schüfftan, an opening-title sequence by the inimitable Saul Bass, and a rhythmic score by Aaron Copland, this film by Jack Garfein (The Strange One) is a major early Sixties work of independent cinema.
Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of the 1961 drama include the following:
* New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Jack Garfein, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New conversation between Garfein and critic Kim Morgan
* New interview with actor Carroll Baker
* New interview with scholar Foster Hirsch on the Actors Studio’s cinematic legacy
* Master Class with Jack Garfein, a 2015 recording of one of the director’s world-famous lectures on acting technique
* An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
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