A pointed departure from Kazan’s bigger-budgeted late studio work, The Visitors is an intimate and intense film made in close collaboration with his son Chris, who wrote the taut screenplay about a traumatic, unexpected reunion of damaged Vietnam veterans. Deeply inspired by Wanda (1970), the brilliantly edgy cult classic written and directed by his wife Barbara Loden (and on which he served as second unit director), Kazan elected to work with an absolutely minimal crew that included Wanda’s cameraman, Nick Proferes. Shot entirely in and around Kazan’s Connecticut home with a young James Woods in the lead role, The Visitors is a wintery, introspective and rarely screened late work that returns to the subject of violence and frustrated masculinity that recurs throughout Kazan’s work.