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| Wanda |
Shot in cinéma vérité style using grainy 16mm and with a substantial nod to John Cassavetes' performance techniques, this headstrong film centres on the hapless, drifting Wanda.
In a move that seems like a vague form of protest, she abandons her banal family life in a small mining town and unwittingly latches onto a petty crook.
Actress Barbara Loden's (
Splendor in the Grass) only film as director won her the 1970 critics' prize in Venice and then mysteriously vanished from most accounts of film history until being recently reclaimed as a lost gem of American independent cinema.
