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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hands down one of the best to do it - support Muscle Distribution’s vital work for film culture.

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Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Amazing to finally see DORIS WISHMAN'S final film last night at Braindead - and to reminisce about the magic of a 90's era Miami Beach that allowed us a brief overlap. Folks new to her work will find an excellent primer here by @cinemiasma.bsky.social : www.artforum.com/columns/whos...

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Dangerous Liaisons

Who’s afraid of Doris Wishman?

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Chicago folks May 19th-22nd I'll be in town presenting some special films: 5/20: Robina Rose's NIGHTSHIFT (1981) at Doc Films/ 5/21: rare 16mm Kodachrome print of WANDA (1970) at Northwestern's Block Museum Cinema / 5/22: Barbara Loden & Joan Micklin Silver's educational 16mm shorts, Block. Links ⬇️

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

a wonderfully perceptive, reflective essay on the oeuvre and ecrits, films complete and unfinished, of Chantal Akerman … @shreir.bsky.social

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The Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time @top100pod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Enjoyed our episode on WANDA? Check out @cinemiasma.bsky.social’s BFI Classics monograph on the film for more of her incredible insights and analysis

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Brilliant. Can a cinema host me to extend this genius premise to present / intro WANDA and EL GOLFO? And for my reading of Wanda as paragon of sleeping in the cinema and the exhausted spectator, read my essay in S Jhaveri’s gorgeous collection NIGHT FEVER.

Wanda Goronski in Barbara Loden’s WANDA enters the movie theater to fall asleep during EL GOLFO

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

JOB POST in FILM STUDIES: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social is hiring Lecturer w specialism(s) in 1 or more of following: 1) Film & Media Practice as Research / Filmmaking; 2) Film Curation +/or Archiving; 3) Non-Fiction Film & Media. Deadline MAR 2nd! Please pass along. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137766-...

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Lecturer in Film Studies | King's College London

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

the technology the left is excited about is 16mm projectors

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The Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time @top100pod.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This weekend Tim is joined by @cinemiasma.bsky.social to discuss Barbara Loden's WANDA...

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Beautiful friend has sent me this all the way from NY … h/t Monica Bartolozzi & METROGRAPH (inc precious work by @cinemiasma.bsky.social aka Elena Gorfinkel)

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Congratulations Jacob Engelberg! Love seeing this - a brilliant book (that had its origins from a brilliant Phd diss at King’s I had the pleasure to co-supervise w Rosalind Galt.) Bravo!

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

tomorrow evening I’m introducing a rare screening of Yuliya Solntseva’s POEM OF THE SEA (1958), based on Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s script, at IFRU London Institute Francaise www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/poem-...

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Caitlin Quinlan @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Very special to be part of the upcoming Laura Mulvey Symposium with many esteemed friends! Join us on Saturday 22nd Nov at the BFI for a day of talks — @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social and I will be rounding off the afternoon with a panel on curation and criticism💡

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Barbara Loden in N. Ireland 😊excited to collaborate w WANDA: Feminism & Moving Image + Belfast Film Festival to present an extension of WANDA/Loden seasons w screening of FADE IN (Jud Taylor/Allen Smithee, 1968)- Sat Nov 1! I'll be present via video intro. belfastfilmfestival.org/whats-on?fbc...

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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sun 11/2: “Wanda” (1970) — 35mm! 🎞 Book signing + Q&A with Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social, author of “BFI Film Classics: Wanda” Made by and starring Barbara Loden, this influential independent film is a portrait of an apathetic woman on a journey through a rural landscape: ucla.in/4gMkkAY

Book cover for "BFI Film Classics: Wanda."

Above: Closeup of Barbara Loden wearing a flowery cap in a car. Below: Barbara Loden sitting near a field.

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Looking forward to this special screening of Barbara Loden’s WANDA on the 55th anniversary of the films release, and discussing the film with the incredible Maya Montanez Smukler Sunday November 2nd @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social Book signing at 6pm! cinema.ucla.edu/events/wanda...

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Wanda | UCLA Film & Television Archive

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

8/21/70: Barbara Loden's indie landmark Wanda New via @cinemiasma.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wanda-978... More: Amy Taubin: www.criterion.com/current/post... @kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.frieze.com/article/barb... @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Review: Barbara Loden's 1970 triumph, 'Wanda,' returns to theaters

In an early scene from Barbara Loden’s landmark 1970 film, “Wanda,” the camera surveys a vast expanse of Pennsylvania coal country.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

You're in luck! You can find most of the Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver 16mm short films curated by @cinemiasma.bsky.social online! 🧵 THE BOY WHO LIKED DEER (1975) streaming via @avgeeks.bsky.social on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Gn...

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Boy Who Liked Deer (1975)

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Incredible program of films by Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver today @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, featuring an illuminating post-screening discussion with curator @cinemiasma.bsky.social and producer Linda Gottlieb!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social in conversation w/ Learning Corporation of America producer Linda Gottlieb after five-film screening of #nontheatrical educational films by Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver @anthologyfilm.bsky.social!

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Rarely screened & vital women’s film history: today Sun@5:45 in THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Loden & Joan Micklin Silver’s 16mm educational shorts. Linda Gottlieb, Learning Corporation producer will discuss LCA history & memories of her friend Silver. Xtra special program!

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The terrific series The World of Barbara Loden starts tonight at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social with Wanda at 6:30pm and Katja Raganelli's documentary I Am Wanda (scroll down) at 9:15pm... www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Meant to say, kudos to @cinemiasma.bsky.social for the teeming Barbara Loden series at Anthology Film Archives; the clip of her w/John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Mike Douglas Show (6:15pm tonight) reminded me that I'd mentioned it in this piece on the wider context: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

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Why We Like to See Directors Talking

For some filmmakers, interviews are a parallel creation to savor at length, apart from any of their specific movies that might be under discussion.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Soo excited to catch some Barbara Loden at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this week! Bravo @cinemiasma.bsky.social!

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Anthology Film Archives @anthologyfilm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN July 25 - August 10 Guest-programmed by @cinemiasma.bsky.social Details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

At Anthology Film Archives Jul 25, “The World of Barbara Loden” examines the work of unforgettable director & star of WANDA. A slightly diff iteration of BFI season, w deep cuts into Loden’s TV career. I”ll give a talk to launch series & my book July 25 www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings

An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic Europea...

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

‪Check out our #nonfiction books and authors that are hot this week! 📚💙 bit.ly/4jM73YT @cinemiasma.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Warhol/Morrissey's CHELSEA GIRLS 1966 16mm at BFI in 'Wanda & Beyond' season, intro by Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 171: Sat Jun 21

Chelsea Girls (Warhol/Morrissey, 1966): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 1.15pm This 16mm screening in the Wanda and Beyond season (full details here )...

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David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Warhol/Morrissey’s Chelsea Girls on 16mm (x 2) at BFI was a woozy trip – irritating, euphoric, droll, repellent and (eventually) extremely shocking, came with an elite intro c/o @cinemiasma.bsky.social.

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

CHELSEA GIRLS sold out NFT3 in 2 hours so has been moved to NFT1- more tickets now available! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Buy cinema tickets for The Chelsea Girls + intro by season curator Elena Gorfinkel | BFI Southbank

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

delighted that THE CHELSEA GIRLS screening on June 21st at BFI is ON. Part of the WANDA & BEYOND season on Barbara Loden. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 11 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'imaginatively scripted & acted (Benjamin is superbly repellent) ... an entertaining satire' @geoff-andrew.bsky.social DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE (1970) in Wanda and beyond season at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 161: Wed Jun 11

Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm This film, also screening on June 21st, is part of the Wanda and Beyond ...

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

delighted that THE CHELSEA GIRLS screening on June 21st at BFI is ON. Part of the WANDA & BEYOND season on Barbara Loden. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 9 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Ultra rare screening of original ‘Alan Smithee’ vehicle, romantic drama FADE IN (1968) w/ Burt Reynolds & Barbara Loden in 'Wanda & Beyond' season at BFI w/ intro by @cinemiasma.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 159: Mon Jun 9

Fade In (Taylor, 1968): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm This film is part of the Wanda and Beyond season at BFI Southbank. Full details here . ...

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Elena Gorfinkel's introduction to "Wanda and Beyond - the world of Barbara Loden" began a season of Loden screenings at BFI Southbank last evening in London! Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker appear in FQ's forthcoming Summer issue...

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen reads: "Wanda and beyond - the world of Barbara Loden, June 2025, BFI Southbank."

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen is a signed photograph of Barbara Loden.

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'sums up the appeal of Hollywood melodrama at its finest' Read this Adrian Martin essay www.adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/s/sp... Go see SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS 35mm at BFI in Loden season capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 155: Thu Jun 5

Splendor in the Grass (Kazan, 1961): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.30pm This 35mm presentation ( also screening on June 8th ) is is part of the Wan...

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 04/06/2025

In fact, here's @cinemiasma.bsky.social doing said intro...

A wide view of NFT1 at BFI Southbank, as Elena Gorfinkel introduces Wanda, and the wider Barbara Loden season.

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Department of Film Studies @ King's @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

💬 'The constellation of Wanda’s genealogies and Loden’s legacies continue to inspire generations of filmmakers, writers and artists.' Dr Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social ‬curated the new BFI season 'Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden', which is taking place throughout June 2025 ⤵️

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Dr Elena Gorfinkel curates BFI season dedicated to director Barbara Loden

Dr Elena Gorfinkel, Reader in Film Studies, is the curator for the new BFI season Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden, dedicated to the career of the American independent actor, writer and di...

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#bestfilminlondontoday Jun 3 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Barbara Loden's trailblazing WANDA (1970) ... theguardian.com/film/filmblo... ... w/ @cinemiasma.bsky.social Elena Gorfinkel intro at BFI Southbank (35mm!) in NFT1 capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 153: Tue Jun 3

Wanda (Loden, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.10pm I wrote about this extraordinary movie for the Guardian here when it was screened at the ...

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

WANDA in 35mm, BFI archive print, tomorrow at Southbank to launch my book on the film. Some tix still left. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Bloomsbury Film & Media @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Curated by Elena Gorfinkel, "Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden" runs June 1 - 28 at London's BFI Southbank. Elena's BFI Film Classic on Wanda is out now! www.bloomsbury.com/wanda-978183... Read more via @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Wanda

Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Lod…

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I average 3 x A5 pages of writing in my journal each morning but today wrote 7.5, half of them about Robina Rose's Nightshift, 1981, screened at BFI last night thanks to Cinenova. A dark red film, Jordan's face pale and convex. After writing I read @cinemiasma.bsky.social mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Sleepless Nocturne: On “Nightshift”

Robina Rose’s punk requiem to women nightworkers and hotel nightcrawlers again sees the light of day.

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

WANDA & BEYOND Season Tickets are now on sale at BFI. Please join me for the book and season launch on Tuesday June 3rd in NFT1 - new 35mm BFI Archive print will be screened and I will give an extended introduction to season and book. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden | BFI Southbank

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“Wanda’s dereliction of her wifely and motherly station lands her literally in a no-place, where she must again barter and renegotiate her utility and value, and her ongoing survival.” – Elena Gorfinkel / @cinemiasma.bsky.social

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“that passive and numb”, Elena Gorfinkel, 2025

Loden’s prescience rests in focalizing pressing considerations of labor, gender, and survival, made in advance of two key films of women’s refusal and drift: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman (1975) an...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

WANDA, a new study from @cinemiasma.bsky.social, will be out tomorrow! Elena Gorfinkel has also curated a season for the BFI, “Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden” (June 1 through 29) — www.criterion.com/current/post...

The cover of Elena Gorfinkel’s WANDA shows Barbara Loden in character and looming over an abandoned car.

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