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CLAUDE JARMAN: OK. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: He was quite a character, wasn’t he? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, he was. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: OJ Simpson was here Opening Night. CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, this was the first year that you had a Castro Opening Night, a second Opening Night—kind of a “people’s” Opening Night. CLAUDE JARMAN: We had Yves Montand. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yes. CLAUDE JARMAN: At the Castro. It was a big crowd, a big crowd. He was very well received. He just had a great time, just loved being around. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Did he come alone, or with Simone Signoret? CLAUDE JARMAN: No, he came alone. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: One of the people you wanted for a tribute—and it was very disappointing—was Buñuel, because you did have the tribute, but there was— CLAUDE JARMAN: I don’t think he ever went to the Festival, if I can recall. But he would have been great. We went ahead with his films anyway. 87
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: But you had hoped to get him, and there was some possibility that you would? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, because the word in Europe was, go to San Francisco, that it was a great place to go, so said Truffaut and all the people who came here, and the reception they received. Plus, in Europe, San Francisco is a very desirable city to visit. We were very open with them, gave them a lot of time to come and stay and enjoy. It was good. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Chabrol was here that year, too. CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes and Montand. We really went through the French, didn’t we? Who’d we miss? MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Not many. CLAUDE JARMAN: Not many. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Signoret, maybe. CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Or did she have a tribute? I’m trying to remember. CLAUDE JARMAN: No, we never had one. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What were the hits and the bombs and the controversial films of that year, do you remember? CLAUDE JARMAN: Let me look. [GLANCES AT 1978 PROGRAM GUIDE] 88
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have a place to go.” And he said,
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