the passenger
This re-released european version was just shown in LA, with Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni in attendance. I can’t wait to see this in UK.
Quote from someone who attended the screening:
“…The film was indeed beautiful. It is EXACTLY the
European version (which has been available as an Asian
DVD made from a laser disc). The team that “restored”
the film were introduced but they acknowledged to me
in private that rather than do any restoration, they
just found and used the best original negative
material.
The quality was indeed excellent, both
visually and aurally. The colors were so much better
and the sound track came through really beautifully.
Thus there were many new nuances that I noticed for
the first time, ones which further support the magic
of this film, that will be much fun to go back to.
I hope we might be able to view it more than once in
late October [when we will have it in Chicago].”