James B. Harris produced his first film, Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, when he was 26 years old, and went on to produce Kubrick's anti-war classic, Paths of Glory and the sophisticated satire, Lolita. Harris made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed The Bedford Incident, a tense submarine adventure that is also an early indictment of nuclear arms, and followed that with Some Call It Loving, which was a critical success abroad but a commercial failure here. In the late seventies, Harris produced Don Siegel's Telefon. His newest film, Fastwalking, a prison film starring James Woods, has been called in Film Comment “the kind of seamy, unsparingly cynical film that studios dislike.” Mr. Harris has a great deal to say on the making of cynical films in Hollywood, and we welcome him tonight.
