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 Antonioni with Jack Nicholson on the set of 1975's The Passenger (Sony Pictures Classics) Antonioni was best known in the States for 1975's The Passenger (at left), starring Jack Nicholson as a journalist who assumes the identity of a dead man. It was re-released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2005; check out our review here. He also gained a degree of fame for Blowup (1966), about a hedonistic photographer searching for the truth - and meaning - behind a dead body in the background of a photo. Read our DVD review here. Antonioni suffered a stroke in 1985, but he contributed a chapter to the trilogy Eros, also featuring the work of Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar Wai, in 2004. He received a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1995. Perhaps he saw Bergman go and decided it was time. In any case, we've lost another giant. |
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