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MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Financially, or— CLAUDE JARMAN: Financially and in other ways. Antonioni was a huge crowd puller. It was probably the best-attended tribute of the Festivals. Everyone was—particularly all the students—they wanted to be there for him. John Huston. Edward G. Robinson, Kirk Douglas, William Wyler. A pretty good lineup, wouldn’t you say? MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Great lineup. And John Huston made news when he attacked American film critics. CLAUDE JARMAN: I don’t remember that. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, Lillian Gish—now, I understand that she wanted to put together her own program. CLAUDE JARMAN: Possibly. That I don’t remember either. It’s too bad Albert’s not around to talk to. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yeah, I know. CLAUDE JARMAN: But we had some very interesting midnight films. We had Yellow Submarine— MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Lonesome Cowboys— CLAUDE JARMAN: Andy Warhol’s film. He was here with Viva. I mean, it was a crazy year. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: (LAUGHS) Who smoked dope with John Wasserman. CLAUDE JARMAN: It was a crazy year. Mai Zetterling was here. I mean, it was probably the year with the most variety of things going on that we’d ever had. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What was your criteria for midnight movies? 29
CLAUDE JARMAN: Something that would bring the younger people out. And they sure came out. It was mobs, big crowds. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: There’s an interesting story, a funny story, about Albert Johnson kind of admonishing the audience for Antonioni. CLAUDE JARMAN: Oh, really? MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yes, he said something about, “Don’t ask stupid questions. Show some respect.” He tended to be that way. CLAUDE JARMAN: He protected his people. If he had someone on there, he wanted them to be treated the way they should be treated. And making the transition from the Chamber worked. We were able to bring it off and still be able to get that— We received $25,000 from the Hotel Tax Fund. That helped us. I can’t remember what George’s contribution was, but it was more than $1,000. So he was getting more and more involved in doing that. And, now the 13th— MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Now you said at the year-end press conference for ’68 that the Festival closed in the black. CLAUDE JARMAN: Well that’s probably when our outside financing got cut the next year. You never saw that again, did you? (LAUGHS) You never saw that again. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: One of the wrap-up articles said, “It has flair, diversity, and best of all, sound organization.” CLAUDE JARMAN: Well I think we did. We had a team that worked together, and Mark Chase was involved with part of that. I think he came on later, but he was like a— MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yeah, he was great. I had some— 30
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