Wanda

Author

Barbara Loden

Call Number

• BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: PG.

Summary

"With her first and only feature film--a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in--Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men--including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society's margins"--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, The Film Foundation, and Gucci, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; I am Wanda, an hour-long documentary by Katja Raganelli featuring an interview with director Barbara Loden filmed in 1980 ; audio recording of Loden speaking to students at the American Film Institute in 1971 ; segment from a 1971 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Loden ; The frontier experience (1975), a short educational film about a pioneer woman's struggle to survive, directed by and starring Loden ; trailer.