Wanda - The Criterion Collection

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.<br/>

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Documentaries: 'I Am Wanda' (1980), Audio recording of Barbara Loden speaking at the American Film Institute in 1971; Segment from an episode of 'The Dick Cavett Show' featuring Loden; Short film directed by and starring Loden: 'The Frontier Experience' (1975); Essay by Amy Taubin (critic), Trailers

Actors: Peter Shupenes, Marian Thier, Anthony Rotell, Frank Jourdano, Gerald Grippo, Barbara Loden, Jerome Thier, Dorothy Shupenes, M. L. Kennedy, Michael Higgins

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 103 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

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