{"id":9277,"date":"2018-08-18T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2018-08-18T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:50:55","slug":"wanda-opens-monday-august-20-for-a-4-day-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wanda-opens-monday-august-20-for-a-4-day-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda opens Monday, August 20 for a 4-day run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda, Restored by UCLA Film &amp; Television Archive, August 20-23 only! Each month, Ragtag and the Citizen Jane Film Festival spotlight a woman-directed film. Wanda is August\u2019s Citizen Jane Suggests selection.<\/p>\n<p>With her first and only feature film \u2014 a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in \u2014 Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. A rarely seen 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.<\/p>\n<p>\"As the African-American poet Audre Lord noted, the master\u2019s house cannot be destroyed with the master\u2019s tools. Wanda\u2019s historical importance lies precisely at this junction: Loden wanted to suggest, from the vantage point of her own experience, what it meant to be a damaged, alienated woman \u2013 not to fashion a 'new woman' or a 'positive heroine.'\" (B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Reynaud, The Last Great American Picture Show \u2013 New Hollywood 1967-76 )<\/p>\n<p>\"Refusing to portray its heroine as either victim or enlightened proto-feminist, the film is a rarity for its (or any other) era... Wanda bears the rawness of its creator\u2019s memories of barely making it out herself.\" (Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WANDA Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/275159804?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda, Restored by UCLA Film &amp; Television Archive, August 20-23 only! Each month, Ragtag and the Citizen Jane Film Festival spotlight a woman-directed film. Wanda is August\u2019s Citizen Jane Suggests selection. With her first and only feature film \u2014 a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in \u2014 Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}