(FWIW, I also saw some 35mm frames, but they looked closer to the DVD. We are talking about analogue media, not digital, and no two release prints will look the same. This is especially true 30+ years after the fact.)
The colour timing of the original film was a source of much conjecture over the years; the 1996 DVD’s colour grade is just about the same as the 35mm version.
With regard to it being from an analogue source, a high-quality 4K or 8K scan of 35mm film will always yield beautiful results, and can easily surpass what is commercially released via DVD and Blu-ray.
This is another reason why I chose the DVD grade over the Final Cut. The Criterion laserdisc, which came from a completely different source from the Director’s Cut DVD (the LD came from an interpositive of the International Cut), looks quite similar to the DVD. This is evidence that the DVD’s color grade is accurate to what people saw in the theater.