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

MARGARITA LANDAZURI: I think I have that, yeah. Who was making the programming decisions at
this time? I think by this time there was a group of people, including George Gund, who were making
the—
CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, George always had his input if he wanted to.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: When he became board chairman, did he take a more active part, or was
he always active from the start?
CLAUDE JARMAN: He was always active. Nancy Pelosi was still doing the Opening Night party, for
years.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: You had your first People’s Republic of China film, Panda.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Panda? OK.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Were there problems and obstacles in getting that film?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Not really. Oh, here we go. Festival Retrospective. We showed daily at 10:00—
(READING FROM PROGRAM GUIDE) Black Orpheus, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Elvira
Madigan, Closely Watched Trains, Weekend. (STOPS READING) So we showed some highlights of
films from the previous 20 years.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: There was a major change in the retrospectives this year. It was called a
Festival Forum, so it wasn’t so much a look back at people’s careers, but also people mid-career.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Right. That was because we were running out of people that were available to us,
or that we hadn’t already done something with. This was the year that we had Natalie Wood. Roger
Vadim.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And Shelley Winters.
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