Something Wild (#850)

A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma,Something Wildstars Carroll Baker, in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic (Ralph Meeker)whose kindness, however, soon 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 Yorks Actors Studio, which transformed American cinema in the mid-twentieth century. With astonishing location and claustrophobic interior photography by Eugene Schfftan, an opening-title sequence by the inimitable Saul Bass, and a rhythmic score by Aaron Copland, Jack Garfeins film is a masterwork of independent cinema.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Jack Garfein, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New conversation between 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 directors world-famous lectures on acting technique
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila OMalley

  New cover by John Sellards