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

CLAUDE JARMAN: We had Mark. Joanne Woodward was terrific. The tributes at that time became
two hours, two-and-a-half hours.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Including film?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes. We just cut them back. And Ruth Gordon was terrific. The Paper Chase
was a good film that people enjoyed. Robert Altman was a very interesting tribute, and people liked him.
I still like him. Let’s see what else we had. Day for Night—Truffaut was here, and he was dating
Jacqueline Bisset. The Truffaut tribute was in the evening. To me, he was the director in Europe. He
made films that people still see. They still see 400 Blows and Jules and Jim. He was great. His English
wasn’t that good, and [Mark] was translating for him. It was a great night.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Why did you decide to have it in the evening?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Just thought it would be a bigger event that deserved an evening as opposed to an
afternoon and that people would come. And the night before we had Day for Night, so it was just a
good tie-in.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What do you recall about him and Jacqueline Bisset when they came?
What were they like?
CLAUDE JARMAN: It was all fast and furious. She’s gorgeous. She really was. And there was kind of
aflutter because they were an item. She towered over him. She was bigger than he was, taller. But it was
really one of our better evenings. Shirley MacLaine was there too and it was a very fun event.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: She had some interesting comments, looking back on her films. She said
something about being kind of embarrassed by some of them because they were so anti-woman or so
antifeminist.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Like The Apartment? She was a very interesting woman. Had a lot to say.
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