Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E Chicago Ave
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The Passenger, Photo: Floriano Steiner. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classic; All Rights Reserved
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Thursday Jan 21, 2010 (6pm)
Saturday Jan 23, 2010 (3pm)
Sunday Jan 24, 2010 (3pm)
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$8
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You have to wonder if Mad Men's Matthew Weiner had The Passenger in the back of his mind when he invented Don Draper, identity thief. In Michaelangelo Antonioni's brilliant, slippery 1975 film, a journalist (Jack Nicholson) finds a dead body in a hotel and decides to escape his existing life by trading places with the man — turns out he's a gun-runner with appointments to keep. For 19 years, The Passenger was available in the U.S. only as a horrible VHS; thankfully a restored version was rereleased in 2005, including two crucial scenes previously cut by MGM. Antonioni is known for his camerawork, but The Passenger's penultimate shot in particular, a virtuosic seven-minute take with a wandering view, is legendary.
