With her first and only film a hard luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in barbara loden turned in a ground breaking work of american independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on screen'. '.strtoupper('s')et 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, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme'. '.strtoupper('a') difficult to see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society's margins.new 2k digital restoration by the ucla film television archive, the film foundation, and gucci, with uncompressed monaural soundtracki am wanda, an hour long documentary by katja raganelli featuring an interview with director barbara loden filmed in 1980audio recording of loden speaking to students at the american film institute in 1971segment from a 1971 episode of the dick cavett show featuring lodenthe frontier experience 1975, a short educational film about a pioneer woman's struggle to survive, directed by and starring lodentrailerplus an essay by film critic amy taubin