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Wild Side [1998] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Donald Cammell Actors: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche, Steven Bauer, Allen Garfield Studio: Tartan Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £4.74 as of 25/11/2009 22:36 GMT details You Save: £15.25 (76%) New (15) Used (5) from £4.74 Seller: selectcheaper Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 25882 Format: Full Screen, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 0 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 111 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5023965331120 ASIN: B000050GOU Theatrical Release Date: 1998 Release Date: November 20, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » God Bless Frank Mazzola September 4, 2002 13 out of 16 found this review helpful Frank Mazzola, the film's editor, is the man who brought this version of Cammel's vision to the screen. We will never know if this is what Donald really wanted but it is likely to be a much better guess than that made by the producers Nu Image with their straight to video softcore lesbian erotica version that got the late Mr Cammel so upset. This film is probably one of the best movies made during the nineties. Cammel has drawn astonishing, richly nuanced performances from the four main players in tightly woven set pieces. Most notable are Walken's money launderer Bruno, whose hysterical paranoia is both hilarious and disturbing, and Steven Bauer's extremely menacing undercover agent/ macho thug Tony, masquerading as Bruno's bodyguard. The film also includes Ryuichi Sakamoto's wonderfully atmospheric soundtrack that breathes gently over the film. The mise en scene is beautifully set up, colours radiate passionately throughout the set design and works brilliantly with the intense sexual cat and mouse play in the film, every emotion delicately registered from body to voice. The movie is a complex richly woven tapestry of sex and greed, power and violence; with a fathomless perspicacity that rewards multiple repeat viewings to point that, to be frank (no pun intended), if you don't like this film in any way you should probably stop watching movies altogether. Brilliant March 20, 2003 9 out of 11 found this review helpful What can you say. This film is superb. The music by Sakamoto is wonderful. The editing and the performances are weird I know, Christopher Walken is always watchable. Buy this, you won't regret it. But not for those who liked Titanic. brilliant! September 18, 2005 5 out of 7 found this review helpful This is a great film. Anne Heche and Joan Chen are brilliant as is Christopher Walken. brAlex (Anne Heche) works in a bank but is forced in prostitution to pay of her debts. One of her clients is Bruno (Walken) who becomes obsessed with Alex's performance in bed. Bruno sends his bodyguard to find out if Alex is with the police but it turns out the bodyguard is the one who is with the police. brAlex meets Virginia (Joan Chen), who is Bruno's estranged wife, and they fall for each other. The love story between the two women is beatiful and they realise they don't need men now they have found each other. brThe DVD has a lot of special features including interviews with Anne Heche and Donald Cammell, the director. There is also a short film, The Argument.brThis film is great buy it! THIS Is The Version To Get July 13, 2009 T. Dissinger (Jacksonville, AL USA) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful I live in the USA and we are saddled with TWO horrible versions of this film. If you want to watch "Wildside", THIS is the version to get. Some folks may claim that this film is a total car crash. I have to agree. But the Tartan Video edition is one you can't take your eyes off of. The others just make you wince and look away. Great performances from the entire cast and a VERY offbeat script make this a winner. Thank goodness it is a 0 region DVD and I had a player that could convert PAL to NTSC. DIRECTOR'S CUT OF THE TERRIBLE MOVIE IS QUITE GOOD!!! December 2, 2000 tomislav.strinic@st.tel.hr (Split,Croatia) 15 out of 17 found this review helpful I've bought this director's cut DVD version only because Chris Walken is one of my favorite actors and I want all his movies on DVD. But I was rather surprised that this cut actually makes sense and it's rather good psychological thriller. So enyone who saw that terrible producer's version (which drove director Cammell to suicide) watch this and be amazed. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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