Wild Side (1995 film)

Wild Side
Wild Side
Directed by	Donald Cammell
Written by	China Kong; Donald Cammell
Produced by	Avi Lerner (executive producer); Danny Dimbort (executive producer); Trevor Short (executive producer); Andrew Pfeffer (executive producer); Elie Cohn (producer); John Langley (producer); Boaz Davidson (co-producer); Joan Chen (associate producer); (director's cut):; Hamish McAlpine (producer); Nick Jones (producer); Frank Mazzola (producer); China Kong (co-producer); Roger Trilling (co-producer)
Starring	Anne Heche; Christopher Walken; Joan Chen; Steven Bauer
Cinematography	Sead Mutarevic
Edited by	Frank Mazzola
Music by	Jon Hassell (original); Ryuichi Sakamoto (director's cut)
Release dates	24 February 1996 (cable TV premiere); 2000 (director's cut);
Running time	96 min.; 111 min. (Director's cut)
Countries	United Kingdom; United States
Language	English

Wild Side is a 1995 erotic thriller film co-written and directed by Donald Cammell and starring Anne Heche in her first lead role, along with Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Steven Bauer, and Allen Garfield. It was Cammell's final film before his suicide in April 1996.

The film had a troubled production history. Cammell's original version of the film that featured a non-linear narrative was recut without his permission by the production company Nu Imag, with the new cut emphasizing the sex scenes, turning it into an exploitation picture with an incoherent story.^[2] Wild Side initially was a straight-to-video release.

A director's cut was reconstructed according to Cammell's original intentions by film editor Frank Mazzola and writer China Kong, which recreated the non-linear construction, creating an avant-garde film with a new musical score.^[2] This version was released in 2000 and was well-received by some critics. It is considered by many to be a cult film.

The film gained some notoriety for the strong lesbian sex scene between Heche and Chen featured in the unrated version, which the production company Nu Image used to market the film starting in 1997, during Anne Heche's famous relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.

^ "CAMMELL AFTER DARK". Spectacle Theater. 27 September 2015. Archived from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2023. There's also a sublime Ryuichi Sakamoto score
^ ^a ^b Kermode, Mark. "Wild Side". bfi.com. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[1] "CAMMELL AFTER DARK". Spectacle Theater. 27 September 2015. Archived from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2023. There's also a sublime Ryuichi Sakamoto score

[BFI-2] Kermode, Mark. "Wild Side". bfi.com. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

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