Demme visits STF with SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA
- by Raphaela Neihausen, May 15, 2009
Last Tuesday night, there’s a reason the show sold-out a week in advance and a wait-list line began congregating an hour prior to showtime. STF was screening Jonathan Demme’s rarely seen print SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (1987) and everyone delighted in an opportunity to remember Spalding Gray. The evening was co-presented by the Woodstock Film Festival. Co-founder and executive director Meira Blaustein conducted the post-film Q&A with Demme, editor Carol Littleton (whose editing credits include E.T., THE BIG CHILL and many others) and impromptu guest Judy Arthur (member of the KILLING FIELDS crew and features in Spalding’s monologue). To read more about the evening, visit Karina Longworth’s blog here.
L to R: Judy Arthur, Jonathan Demme, Carol Littleton, Meira Blaustein, Raphaela Neihausen. Photo courtesy of Steven Krasnopolsky (Vernissage Studio 21).
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