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Jean-Louis Scherrer staged his fashion rendition of the hunters and the hunted to the sound of baying hounds and music from the film Barry Lyndon. His Loden capes and hunting jackets gave way to evening gowns ornamented with leopard-paw clasps and, finally, to chiffon sheaths in panther prints...
...have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day he would pull a loden green curtain across the glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports. Similarly in the three weeks...
These are precisely the stereotyped categories that Barbara Loden, actress and film maker, set out to shatter in Wanda, a lowbudget, highly autobiographical effort released last year. Says Miss Loden, who wrote, directed and starred in the picture: "Wanda was the prototype of the unliberated wom an. She had hardly any overtly redeeming qualities. Usually a girl like that would be fixed up to be more at tractive or be made witty. But I wanted to show a real woman from a certain milieu of our society. All my films will probably be fictionalized sociological studies about women and their...
...fault seems to be primarily one of conception. Wanda, in Miss Loden's characterization, is a little like Fellini's Cabiria. She is used, victimized and deserted by men in a series of bitter, occasionally funny vignettes. But in Fellini's exquisite parable, Cabiria's tragic flaw was her humanity and innocence; Wanda can blame her woes only on what very often seems like stupidity, a trait readily conducive to personal, but not dramatic tragedy...
...Miss Loden manages at times to make the heart ache for Wanda's rootlessness and empty-headed plight. As a director, she captures the ambience of small-time roadhouses with compelling accuracy; she manages through some clever location photography (done in and around the Pennsylvania coal-mining country) to convey an almost overwhelming sense of lingering desperation. Her debut as a director, despite its flaws, is both welcome and promising. · Jay Cocks