Barbara Loden beyond ‘Wanda': An upcoming film and lecture series provides a tantalizing look at what might have been

Scholar Elena Gorfinkel discusses her upcoming series devoted to the groundbreaking writer, director, and actress, and why ...
The Village Voice

Barbara Loden’s Pioneering “Wanda” Returns to Screens at Last

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Two Feminist Directors Who Exposed the Trials of Working Class Women

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 ...
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Why You Should Watch Barbara Loden's Groundbreaking Wanda

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 ...
Chicago Reader

Unsentimental Education: Classroom Films by Barbara Loden and John Mackenzie

A program of short films made for classroom use, two by Wanda director Barbara Loden (1975) and one by UK filmmaker John Mackenzie (1977), who would later direct The Long Good Friday. The Reader is ...