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Phantom of the Paradise

Phantom of the Paradise

The Sunflower Public House

Sunday 27 October, 3.00pm

£8.00 

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Phantom of the Paradise (50th anniversary screening)

Forget The Rocky Horror Picture Show, THIS is the original camp rock n roll horror extravaganza!

Directed by Oscar-winner Brian De Palma, Phantom of the Paradise is a day-glo 70s pop opera which also manages to be a searing critique of the soulless corporatization of art and artists.

Evil impresario, Swan (played by diminutive, baby-faced genius composer Paul Williams) steals a pretentious rock cantata from naïve songwriter Winslow Leach, and then frames him on drugs charge. 

After he’s been disfigured by a record-pressing machine, Winslow returns to seek revenge by haunting Swan’s theatre, the Paradise. The rest is musical cinematic gold… 

Filmed with giddying kaleidoscopic flair and backed by a stack of absolute banging tunes – written by Paul Williams himself – Phantom of the Paradise has become a stone-cold cult classic over the years, whose many fans include Tomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk fame.

So join us down at The Paradise Club (The Sunflower) as The Juicy Fruits are about to take to the stage, and prepare to have your mind blown…

“It’s not hard to see how Phantom of the Paradise has inspired Daft Punk over the years—from their helmets à la the Phantom’s metal cowl to their collaboration with Paul Williams himself—or why a film like this might resonate deeply with pop  musicians…” Pitchfork

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