The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s restoration of Barbara Loden’s seldom-screened 1970 masterpiece “Wanda” is one of the cinema events of the year. Showing all weekend at the Brattle Theatre, this ...
"Listen Judge, if he wants a divorce, just give it to him." Janus Films has debuted a new trailer for the re-release of a film titled Wanda, an art house success from 1970 that opened in US cinemas in ...
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 pale speck of a woman appears and comes into ...
More than one man has attempted to take credit for the successes of writer-director Barbara Loden’s 1971 drama Wanda. After her death from cancer in 1980, suddenly everyone but her was responsible for ...
The opening sequence of Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda betrays a bleak and desperate beauty. Extreme long shots dwarf nameless workers under sooty mountains of coal. Rugs air-dry from Rust Belt ...
Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...
“Whatever film I make is some extension of myself,” Barbara Loden told French film critic Michel Ciment at the Venice Film Festival in 1970, where Wanda, her landmark directing debut—which she also ...
THE arc of the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden’s life was dramatic enough to be a Hollywood movie. She survived a hardscrabble Southern childhood; moved at 16 to New York, where she was a pin-up ...