HAROLD AND MAUDE Guest Artistic Director

No matter how he fakes suicide — by hanging, throat slashing, drowning, gunshot — poor little rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) just can’t seem to get his mom’s (Vivian Pickles) attention. But while pursuing his favorite hobby — funeral watching — Harold meets Ruth Gordon’s feisty septuagenarian Maude, sparking one of the oddest romances in screen history. Overlooked upon initial release, Hal Ashby’s HAROLD AND MAUDE slowly found its following, becoming a defining cult classic of the 1970s, along with the beloved soundtrack by Yusuf/Cat Stevens.