----------------------------Original message---------------------------- State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 10025 Krin Gabbard Associate Professor Comparative Literature 212 749-1631 29-Mar-1995 00:21am EST FROM: KGABBARD TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re: Antonioni Yes, it was nice to see Antonioni alive and crying at the Academy Awards, but what about the perverse way in which Jack Nicholson introduced him? I noticed that the speed-of-light survey of his career included a clip from _The Passenger_, but I did not hear Nicholson apologizing for buying the rights to the film and then preventing people from seeing it. I don't recall being that impressed by _The Passenger_ except for the amazing trick at the end when the camera seems to float through a window and then turn around and look back at the place from which it has impossibly emerged. Krin Gabbard SUNY Stony Brook