Wanda

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Loden, Barbara, film director.

Loden, Barbara, actor.

Higgins, Michael, actor.

Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime.

Independent films.

Drama.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) 1970

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2019

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

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, 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. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**

Participant:

Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1970

OCLC:

1127056859

Publisher Number:

6793537 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license