Wanda (#965)

With her first and only feature filma hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred inBarbara 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 vrit style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), 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 menincluding 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,Wandais a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on societys margins.

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• New 2K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & T