Deleted scenes
https://antonioni9.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/the-passenger-that-you-didnt-see-october-1975/
Interesting!
Thanks for posting this, I remember reading it ages ago in the excellent book "The Architecture of Vision," which collects Antonioni interviews and writings from over the years.
I love the film, though I do admit it may not be perfectly-structured due to the way it was edited down to around 2 hours from a longer cut (even the cut that's slightly over 2 hours, released on DVD in 2006, isn't technically Antonioni's full, "preferred" version). However, I wonder if adding in these deleted scenes wouldn't make it even more unusual and unwieldy in the way it's paced. I think it may be best as it is.
Still, I'd love to see those deleted scenes as an extra or something. Doubt it'll ever happen. Criterion is the only hope.
No worries! Would love to see the extended version too. I like that you can see the glasses of Campari and soda on the table of the Munich bar as Locke flicks through Robertson's diary.
shareIndeed, and you can also see a couple stills from deleted scenes on the back cover of the DVD release. One of them is very widely circulated, and it's of Jack and Maria Schneider ("The Girl") kissing on a hotel bed. Another small still on the back cover, as I recall, shows Jack grinning and raising a glass at a bar -- very possibly from the deleted scene in this thread. Odd that these stills would be on the back of the DVD when they're not actually in the film.
shareYeah, I have both these stills on the back of my DVD - strange indeed these photos should be from scenes not included in the DVD cut of the film.
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