This screening includes Wanda
- Date and time:
- Sun, Feb 3, 2019, From 1–2:43 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 43 min
- Cost:
- $4 IUB students, $7 non-students
New 4K Restoration
Series: International Art House Series
About Wanda
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1970
- Format:
- 2K DCP
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
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 (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, and callously mistreated by a series of men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. A rarely seen 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. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI. Contains mature content.