PRESENTED BY PAUL WILLIAMS & SAM PRESSMAN
Paul Williams and Sam Pressman presented a screening of Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise last night, closing out this year's Cannes Film Festival at Macé beach on the Croisette. As the festival description has it, "In addition to all the screenings, conferences and events of the Official Selection happening at the Palais du Festival, the Festival reinvents itself each day at 9.30 pm and transforms the Macé beach of the Croisette (across the Majestic) into an open-air theater at nightfall."
On stage in front of the giant screen before the film last night, Paul Williams recalled the days when the film was released in 1974. "What was very good fortune for us, was that it wasn't a small hit, or even a big hit," Williams told the Canneds audience. "It was a film that, the people that loved it, would not walk away from."
