FRI MAY 19, 2023 7:00 PM WANDA $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘The Cinematheque Avengers’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Writer-director Barbara Loden’s sole feature is a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen onscreen. 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. A rarely seen masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, WANDA is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins. “One of the best American independent films ever made.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: USA