VERY RARE PUBLIC SCREENING OF RECONSTRUCTED ORIGINAL VERSION HAPPENED THURSDAY
Jon DeMon was at the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival screening of Phantom Of The Paradise Thursday night, and tweeted, that it "was the 1st public presentation of De Palma's unedited 'Swan Song' cut!" And indeed, the version that played Thursday was the reconstructed version that Paul Williams spoke about this past summer when he thanked Ari Kahan of the Swan Archives on stage at Fantasia Fest for finding the lost footage and putting together "this absolutely pristine version of the film." With all of the legal wranglings, we don't expect very many public screenings of this version in the near future, but it was a nice surprise for the 150-plus audience members at the Tarrytown Music Hall Thursday in New York.
