Wanda

Interesting prequel, you can see why she decided to become a fish.

matt lynch

there’s an acrid authenticity to the character of Wanda: at once submissive, passive, and tenacious — a flickering blue flame, a pilot light ready and aching to burn it all down. as the first narrative feature ever to be written, directed by and starring the same woman…

mia lee vicino

The crushing, mundane, aimless despair of everyday reality and our understandable but failed attempts to retreat into fantasy. "If you don't have anything then you're nothing. You may as well be dead. You're not even a citizen of the United States."

Josh Lewis

Saw this years ago so revisiting this film now that it has been restored was like watching the film for the first time. Restoration is fantastic. Great building of tension and always engaging. Love the 16mm aesthetic and Barbara Loden says so much with so little words…

Sean Baker

Wanda has such a rough life I'm glad she got to eat an ice cream cone at one point

brendan o'hare

It's amazing where this film ends up going, to end in a brothel and to make a cognent statement about society, about the world, whatever you want to call it, and yet begin with such specificity of time and place - Wanda begins almost completely circumstantial, and seems…

Neil Bahadur

Another beer, another cigarette. Always a minute away from disappearing completely.

Ty Landis

There are so many oeuvre's of canonical filmmakers that could be disposed of completely if it meant at least one more film from this phenomenally gifted filmmaker. I can think of no film which has such a remarkable sense of place and world-building, yet achieves a level of…

Neil Bahadur

Barbara Loden’s “Wanda” looks, sounds, and feels like a film pieced together from the last scraps of nothing.  The first feature-length movie to be written, directed, and starred in by a woman, “Wanda” is a work that struggles with whether or not it should exist. But…

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