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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