----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I must disagree with Krin Gabbard's unimpressed view of THE PASSENGER, a film well ahead of its time insofar as it deals with the media's role in postcolonialism in addition to the usual modernist identity questions expected of Antonioni. But I share his dismay at the general unavailability of the film, and was annoyed that Antonioni's sense of time and rhythm couldn't be respected by a rapid-fire MTV montage of clips. Too bad the Academy was never able to put together a fast-moving segment of Mizoguchi or Ophuls clips! THE PASSENGER reminds me: is there any career (except perhaps Terrance Malick's) as significant and brief as Maria Schneider's?? She works with Antonioni and Bertolucci, against Nicholson and Brando, and then basically vanishes (although I'm aware she's worked in minor films).