Something wild / Prometheus Enterprises Inc. presents ; screenplay by Jack Garfein & Alex Karmel ; produced by George Justin ; directed by Jack Garfein.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Container of (work): Something wild (Motion picture : 1961) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008029367
Notes:
This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players. Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Charles Watts, Clifton James, George L. Smith, Doris Roberts, Ken Chapin, Anita Cooper, Ginny Baker, Tanya Lopert. Title from title frame. Based on the novel: Mary Ann / by Alex Karmel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. Uncompressed mono, wide screen (aspect ratio of 1.66:1). Essay by critic Sheila O'Malley in container. Special features: New conversation between director Jack Garfein and critic Kim Morgan; new interview with actor Carroll Baker; Behind the method, a new interview with scholar Foster Hirsch on the Actors Studio; Master Class with Jack Garfein, excerpts from a 2014 recording of one of the director's world-famous lectures on acting technique; essay by critic Sheila O'Malley.
Summary:
A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma. A college student attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic whose kindness unfortunately takes an unsettling turn. 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.
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