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MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Did you face any opposition from any of the board members about moving? CLAUDE JARMAN: We didn’t have any choice. There wasn’t a board. It was a board with just Ray Syufy. In fact, they were all Alioto’s guys. These were people who had signed the note. So there really wasn’t a board. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, OK, because there was some sort of press thing that said that three of the board members were opposed to the move. CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, I don’t know who that was, but they obviously didn’t know what the story was, because we had no choice. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: How did the audiences like the place? CLAUDE JARMAN: I thought they liked it fine. It was comfortable. We only had 1000 seats, and we had come from the big, huge Masonic. The tributes were still getting longer and longer and longer. We had Paul Newman. We had a pretty outstanding group: David Lean, Rosalind Russell and Satyajit Ray. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: There were protesters at the David Lean tribute. What was that about? CLAUDE JARMAN: I have no idea. I don’t remember. Why would anyone protest David Lean? MARGARITA LANDAZURI: I know. Well, I think it was some of the younger people that thought he was, I don’t know, passé or something. I’m not sure—just something in the press about protesters. CLAUDE JARMAN: Hmmm. There were a lot of people who were passé. That was the whole idea. (LAUGHS) They weren’t new directors. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: One of the most riveting of all the tributes was Cassavetes that year. He was just so intense, wasn’t he? 39
CLAUDE JARMAN: He was. He had his own crowd. The New Directors series was interesting. We had Barbara Loden, who was there with Elia Kazan. I had a chance to spend some time with him. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Really? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes. We never could get him to do anything, but he’s still one of my favorite directors. But he was there to support her. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: She got quite a reception, didn’t she? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes and it was well received. The whole idea was trying to feature new directors. Also, Jerry Schatzberg, who was involved with Faye Dunaway. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: They were involved somehow. Puzzle of a Downfall Child, was that the film? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, which was not a great film by any means, but it was OK. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Pretty to look at. Nice to look at. CLAUDE JARMAN: It was a festival film. Let me see the other films that year. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, Truffaut’s The Wild Child, Buñuel’s Tristana. CLAUDE JARMAN: I know we had the Chabrol film, Le Bouchet, which was pretty good. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Was he there that year? That was another year, wasn’t it? CLAUDE JARMAN: No, he wasn’t there that year. Tristana was a Buñuel film. 40
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