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PUBLISHED
©2019
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #965
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1970
"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 (Loder), 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
Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio)
Features: New 2K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, The Film Foundation, and Gucci; 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
Photographed and edited by Nicholas T. Proferes
Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier, Anthony Rotell, M.L. Kennedy
MPAA rating: PG
Blu-ray, region A; uncompressed monaural
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)