San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...

MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Right. Oh, Pasolini’s Medea, which evidently some of the press didn’t
like; I don’t know about the audiences.
CLAUDE JARMAN: I thought the program went very well; not one of our greater years, but obviously
we had Paul Newman.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: This was the first year that there was a charge for the tributes.
CLAUDE JARMAN: And remember, the reason for the charge was not for the money, but for crowd
control.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: How so?
CLAUDE JARMAN: These tributes would run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.—some people would get
there and leave, or there were people who had already given up and gone, and it was chaos. I felt,
everyone has to have a ticket to get in, and that’s the whole key to it. Of course, Albert treated that as
anti-student who couldn’t afford a dollar. It was a dollar and a half, or something crazy. But you need a
ticket to get in, and that’s the way it works. And I think that because we had reduced the size from 2,200
to 1,000, that’s the only way we could do it. We had lines all the way out to the street. The other film
which was great was the original War and Peace film from—
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, Bondarchuk.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Bondarchuk, which we showed at the Coronet Theater, because it had the big
screen. And I think we showed it in two parts. It was a great film, it really was.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Is that ’70 or ’71? That may have been ’71.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Really? OK. Let’s see—
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