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

SHEILA CADIGAN: He was in ’86. Danny Glover was also there, but he was there in ’87 as
well in the pictures with Juliette Binoche and Norman Mailer. These are just pictures that I’m
drawing on.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: Juliet Binoche came for a film with Leos Carax, and he was a very
young Parisian filmmaker who, I don’t think has done very much since then, and they were
boyfriend and girlfriend, and she was starting to make The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: No, I think she already made it.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: She didn’t speak much English.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: She was a doll. He was awful.
MIGUEL PENDÁS: She came over, she was in the kitchen over here.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: Yes. And that was the year we were back in the kitchen drinking
pepper vodka out of coffee mugs. And pickled tomatoes. And something else.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: We had Alexei German, the Russian director, sitting here in this
booth.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: His translator was there with his pickles. It was the first time I ever
had them. And Rose Kaufman was back there with us, and that was year we were drinking huge
mugs of pepper vodka.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yeah, straight shots.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: But Danny Glover, I also want to say, we did an evening with him
early on. He was the one—and he was a celebrity. Local here. Here it’s like New York—you see
a celebrity, people just leave them alone. But he would come to the Festival just to see films. On
his own, and he would get the biggest bucket of popcorn you ever saw and a soda and just mind
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