Sun September 19, 2021 8:00 PM WANDA / LOSING GROUND $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Double Feature Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILMS WANDA, 1970, Janus Films, 103 min., Dir. Barbara Loden Writer-director Barbara Loden’s sole feature is a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen onscreen. Set 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. A rarely seen masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, WANDA is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins. “One of the best American independent films ever made.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker FORMAT: DCP LOSING GROUND, 1982, Kino Lorber, 86 min. Dir. Kathleen Collins One of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman, Kathleen Collins’ second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model. FORMAT: DCP VIEW SERIES