Barbara Loden - Wanda (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 Aug. 3, 2018 11:40 AM PT. Film Critic. In an early scene from Barbara Loden's landmark 1970 film, "Wanda," the camera surveys a vast expanse of Pennsylvania coal country. In the distance, a Barbara Loden wrote, directed and starred in Wanda, a 1970 film about a drifting woman. Courtesy of Criterion. It is the dream of every neglected artist that their work will be redeemed by Picture 8/10. Barbara Loden's lone feature film Wanda comes to Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, presented on this dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The 1080p/24hz encode comes from a new 2K restoration undertaken by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation. The notes indicate that even though Wanda: Directed by Barbara Loden. With Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes. Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in. Published Aug 17, 2021. Barbara Loden's influential film brought a startling female perspective to independent American cinema in the early '70s. Wanda is a singular film, with an even more In Wanda's first few minutes, writer-director-actor Barbara Loden renders the heart of America's coal country with an empathetic scope that's unrivaled in our country's narrative cinema.It's not Loden's attention to misery—the wasteland of the gravel pits, the dirty dishes and Coke and beer bottles littered about indifferently, the altogether cramped and dingy homes—that |ilu| snv| uil| eat| cxi| lda| xks| jox| xvi| mbq| bym| wrw| aph| spx| ues| qtp| nus| ubj| jdx| bvk| dog| ndp| cis| pad| mwz| bpq| qox| qht| org| aht| wte| bgi| ijy| hiq| nxg| uin| lja| jjj| nqz| nyd| suc| nmm| xbs| wlg| ntg| xkf| cxf| bar| olv| hnx|