Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden

Nacimiento : 1932-07-08, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1980-09-05

Historia

Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Broadway Tony award-winning American stage and film actress, model, and stage/film director. She was the first woman to write, direct and star in her own feature film, Wanda, which won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Loden also directed several off-Broadway plays. Loden was a life member of the famed Actors Studio and appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass. In 1970 Loden wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own independent film, Wanda, made with the collaboration of cinematographer and editor Nicholas T. Proferes, on a meager budget of $115,000. Wanda is an semi-autobiographical portrait of a "passive, disconnected coal miner's wife who attaches herself to a petty crook."[4] Innovative in its cinéma vérité style, it was one of the few American films directed by a woman to be theatrically released at that time. Film critic David Thomson wrote, "Wanda is full of unexpected moments and raw atmosphere, never settling for cliché in situation or character." The film was the only American film accepted to, and which won, the International Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970, and was presented at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, with support from Gucci, the film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

Perfil

Barbara Loden

Películas

Arthur Miller: Escritor
Arthur Miller: Escritor
Self (archive footage)
La película de Rebecca Miller es un retrato de su padre, su época y sus observaciones, construido alrededor de entrevistas improvisadas grabadas en el hogar familiar durante años.
I Am Wanda
I Am Wanda
Interviewee
Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.
The Boy Who Liked Deer
The Boy Who Liked Deer
Producer
Film about vandalism made for classroom exhibition
The Frontier Experience
The Frontier Experience
Producer
The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the program reveals the cruel violence, and even crueler loneliness, which early settlers encountered — but above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.
The Frontier Experience
The Frontier Experience
Director
The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the program reveals the cruel violence, and even crueler loneliness, which early settlers encountered — but above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.
The Frontier Experience
The Frontier Experience
Delilah Fowler
The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the program reveals the cruel violence, and even crueler loneliness, which early settlers encountered — but above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.
The Boy Who Liked Deer
The Boy Who Liked Deer
Director
Film about vandalism made for classroom exhibition
Fade-In
Fade-In
Jean
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Wanda
Wanda
Wanda Goronski
En la zona obrera de los suburbios de Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski, una mujer con problemas, abandona a su familia y acaba sumergida en un mundo de perdición.
Wanda
Wanda
Writer
En la zona obrera de los suburbios de Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski, una mujer con problemas, abandona a su familia y acaba sumergida en un mundo de perdición.
Wanda
Wanda
Director
En la zona obrera de los suburbios de Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski, una mujer con problemas, abandona a su familia y acaba sumergida en un mundo de perdición.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Laura Wingfield
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
Esplendor en la hierba
Esplendor en la hierba
Virginia 'Ginny' Stamper
En una localidad rural de Kansas, dos jóvenes que pertenecen a ambientes sociales muy distintos se aman y deciden no separarse jamás; pero la desaprobación de sus familias y ciertos intereses ajenos a sus sentimientos acabarán decidiendo su suerte.
Río salvaje
Río salvaje
Betty Jackson
América, años treinta. Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) es un agente de la organización del Valle del Tennessee, encargado de expropiar las tierras ribereñas, cuyos habitantes sufren con frecuencia los devastadores desbordamientos del río. El objetivo es, además de evitar catástrofes, construir una presa hidroeléctrica que garantice el progreso de la región. Pero ese proyecto exige la demolición de las viviendas de una pequeña población y la evacuación de sus habitantes. Y el caso más difícil de resolver es el de una mujer de 80 años (Jo Van Fleet), que se resiste con todas sus fuerzas a abandonar el hogar de sus antepasados. Mientras tanto Chuck se va enamorando de la nieta de la anciana, la bella Carol (Lee Remick).