Something Wild (1961)

The first half's largely silent, simultaneously lurid and sensitive depiction of assault and trauma and shame could have been the whole movie, a 70-minute bullet. Once it turns into a sweaty two-hander it starts to lean way too heavily on clunky metaphor and Actor's Studio…

matt lynch

i can't help but feel like this slipped between my fingers - rarely have i been so ultimately disappointed in a film that i started off loving. the first 45 minutes are a remarkable portrait of mary anne, a traumatized woman, trying to figure out how to live in her own skin…

🔮 dana danger 🔮

This film has lived in the shadows of my brain since I saw it years age 17. I watched it on YouTube one day knowing nothing about it. I couldn't explain what I saw and how I felt about it. I desperately wanted to discuss it with someone. But, I couldn't find anything…

Meg

How my brain tricks itself: 1st - seeing a list of movie titles posted that are going to be leaving the Criterion Channel on Twitter at the end of the month. Hey, it includes Something Wild! 2nd - Me, assuming 'Something Wild' is the Demme comedy from the 80s-I'm in…

Jay D 's Watching

Discussed with Kim Morgan in the latest episode of The Cinephiliacs. Radical in so many ways—opening with 20 minutes of silence, a shift from NYC-served kitchen sink realism to a psycho-sexual chamber drama, and Garfien's masterful direction: pushy but not showy, played for…

Peter Labuza

1. fascinating document 2. Carroll Baker, so underrated 3. gorgeous shots of 1961 NYC set to Copland’s score, also enjoyed the dream sequence 4. Doris Roberts, Jean Stapleton, Ralph Meeker, so many people *flip out* when she’s basically like “No thanks.” 5. yikes, that…

Alex Vlahov

A film of two halves — one a proto-Repulsion, the other overwrought actor’s studio exercises. Shadows ruined independent cinema for a few years.  Reminiscent of The Night Porter in the sense the film isn’t at all about its most transgressive components (as well as its best…

Vincent Prince

Wow. this certainly lives up to its name... This is definitely one of those films I respect more than I actually enjoy. The first hour is pretty incredible - the minimal dialogue, the long takes, Carroll Baker's performance, the interesting take on what we would now call…

Aaron Michael

"People do all sorts of things."

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