Carroll Baker and Ralph Meeker in the film by Jack Garfein

‘Something Wild’ – a 1962 rediscovery on Criterion Channel

Not to be confused with the Jonathan Demme screwball comedy/thriller by the same name, the 1962 Something Wild is an unusually frank and sensitive drama about a teenage girl recovering from rape. The film opens on the assault, a non-explicit scene that communicates both the violence of the rape and the terrible sense of violation […]