2005 NYFF Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) Special Events Ticket Information Press Office		The 43rd New York Film Festival September 23 - October 9,2005 Sponsored by Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC USA, N.A., The New York Times, and Audi
			The Passenger Since its release in 1975, the reputation of Michelangelo Antonioni’s brilliant hybrid of Hollywood thriller and avant-garde art film has continued to grow. Today it’s recognized as one of the great films of our time. Muted and superb, Jack Nicholson stars as David Locke, a world-weary reporter who takes on a dead man’s identity to discover what’s on “the other side of the window.” What Locke finds there isn’t merely the stuff of thrillerdom— murder, sinister politicos, a mysterious woman  (Maria Schneider)—but an existential journey into the self’s relationship to eternity. Moving from the metaphysical sprawl of the North African desert to the delirious glitter of Gaudi’s Barcelona, this autumnal masterpiece—screened here in Antonioni’s preferred cut—shows the director at his most searching and profound, not least in the breathtaking climactic shot that’s one of the high points in cinema history.  126 min.  Italy/USA/France, 1975  A Sony Pictures Classics Release Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage.