An overlooked landmark of 70"s American cinema, Barbara Loden"s WANDA is a radical revisioning of the road movie genre. Writer-director Loden (wife of famed director Elia Kazan) stars as Wanda, a troubled young woman adrift in a modern-day industrial wasteland until she embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook (Michael Higgins). Bracingly honest and beautifully shot, Loden"s unique film deserves to be counted among the most formidable debuts in independent American cinema.