Wild One, The

[Plays June 6-19 at the Tribeca Film Festival; for tickets, log on to https://tribecafilm.com/films/wild-one-2022.] Willem Dafoe narrates Tessa Louise-Salomé's compelling, powerful, insightful, thought-provoking, 94-minute documentary that chronicles tumultuous, fascinating life and career of Czechoslovakia-born director and Actors Studio West cofounder Jack Garfein who survived Nazi concentration camps to arrive in New York City in 1946 at age16 and eventually used his traumatic life experiences in his influential work on Broadway and in films such as The Strange One (1957) and Something Wild (1961) to cover controversial topics, including homosexuality, rape, racism, violence, sexual expression, and segregation, and consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by director and actor Peter Bogdanovich, writer Foster Hirsch, film critic Kate Rennebohm, agent/publicist Dick Guttman, journalist Patricia Bosworth, wife Natalia Repolovsky, and actors Geoffrey Horne, Irène Jacob, Willem Dafoe, Blanche Bake, and Bobby Soto.
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