Capital Celluloid 2017 - Day 97: Sat Apr 8

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975): Curzon Bloomsbury, 3pm

Q&A screening: A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring David Levitt of Levitt Bernstein architects who worked closely on the Brunswick Centre with the late Patrick Hodgkinson and anthropologist and broadcaster Farrah Jarral, who recently wrote and presented the 10-part series BBC Radio 4 series From Savage to Self. Further guests to be announced.

This screening is held to coincide with Passengers, a site-specific exhibition series based at the Brunswick Centre that brings together artists that have an interest in the real and imaginative environments we construct and inhabit. A tour of the exhibition is also offered to interested guests after the screening and discussion - See more here. Passengers brings together artists that have an interest in the real and imaginative environments we construct and inhabit. The title references the 1975 film The Passenger by Michelangelo Antonioni that uses the Brunswick as a powerful and otherworldly mise-en-scène.

Chicago Reader review:
A masterpiece, one of Michelangelo Antonioni's finest works (1975). Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider star as a journalist who trades one identity for another and the woman who becomes his accomplice (and ultimately the moral center of his adopted world). Less a thriller (though the mood of mystery is pervasive) than a meditation on the problems of knowledge, action for its own sake, and the relationship of the artist to the work he brings into being. Next to this film, Blowup seems a facile, though necessary, preliminary. By all means go.
Don Druker

Here (and above) is the trailer.

Q&A screening: A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring David Levitt of Levitt Bernstein architects who worked closely on The Brunswick Centre with the late Patrick Hodgkinson and Anthropologist and Broadcaster Farrah Jarral who recently wrote and presented the 10 part series BBC Radio 4 series From Savage to Self. Further guests to be announced. Saturday 8 April 3.00pm, Bloomsbury This screening is held to coincide with Passengers, a site-specific exhibition series based at the Brunswick Centre that brings together artists that have an interest in the real and imaginative environments we construct and inhabit. A tour of the exhibition is also offered to interested guests after the screening and discussion. - See more at: https://www.curzoncinemas.com/bloomsbury/film-info/the-passenger#sthash.MILUXP1s.dpuf