Barbara Loden
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Wanda: Film from the Future
Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) Anna Backman Rogers 154 pages Punctum Books, 2021 One of the complaints made about feminist films of the 1970s and ’80s was that they were too experimental, too avant-garde, too elitist. They refused the pleasures of pop cinema. They skipped the well-told story and refused the escapism of character identification. And beauty? Forget it! Take Barbara Loden’s Wanda, from 1970: it’s a desolate portrait of what New Yorker critic Paulene Kael dubbed an “ignorant slut” in a film described by Jump Cut’s Chuck Kleinhans as “flat and opaque.” Indeed, Wanda, who is […]
by Holly Willis on Oct 5, 2021 -
WHAT’S IN MY INSTAPAPER: SUNDAY MORNING LINKS
Here are some links that caught my eye this week. The Workbook Project has a new Transmedia Talk Podcast. Topics include “The Web is Dead,” Foursquare, and the Transmedia panels at SXSW 2011. Also at the Workbook Project, Mark Harris on why he shot his forthcoming The Lost Children fiction feature as a doc. Sarah Kessler at Mashable: “New Neutrality — Seven Worst-Case Scenarios.” There’s been a lot of interest in NYC writer Tao Lin over at The Rumpus. I haven’t read him, so I can’t comment. But here’s an intro at Salon that also discusses the new ways he’s […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 29, 2010
