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Podcast spotlights bleak American classics Wanda and Harlan County U.S.A.

Original: Your options are digging coal, or robbing a bank. It's American Bleak Week on Yelling About Movies, and we're getting re

The film podcast Yelling About Movies is running an 'American Bleak Week' dedicated to two portraits of hardship in American life: Barbara Loden's 1970 drama Wanda, about a woman with few options beyond manual labor or crime, and Barbara Kopple's landmark 1976 documentary Harlan County U.S.A., about a Kentucky coal miners' strike. Two new episodes are set to drop on Friday.

Why now: New episodes on these two films are being released this Friday, prompting discussion of their grim portrayals of working-class America.

Yelling About MoviesBarbara LodenWanda (1970)Harlan County U.S.A.Barbara Kopple

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• Your options are digging coal, or robbing a bank. It's American Bleak Week on Yelling About Movies, and we're getting real with WANDA (1970, D. Barbara Loden) and even realer with landmark doc HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (1976, D. Barbara Kopple). Two new episodes drop this Friday. #… · giantspecks@sfba.social

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