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Wanda (Blu-ray)

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THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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With her first and only film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a ground-breaking 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 (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 men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.

A 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.

Extras
  • 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
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin
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SKU 5050629784732
Catalogue Number CC3004BDUK
Product contents 1 disc
Year 1970
Director Barbara Loden
Format Blu-Ray
Publisher(s) THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Countries USA
Colour Colour
Language(s) English
Running time 103 mins
Blu-ray region B
Certificate 15
BFICID_ID 150050653
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