In Memoriam

Maria Schneider, 1952-2011

By February 3, 2011No Comments

Maria #1

Maria #2

Maria #3

Maria #4

From The Passenger, with Jack Nicholson, dir­ec­ted by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975.

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  • Lord Henry says:
    February 3, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    Perfect choice of pictures.

  • Graig says:
    February 3, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    So beau­ti­ful it breaks my heart.

  • bstrong says:
    February 3, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Lord Henry said it right, I would have to gone to this pas­sage in The Passenger too.

  • lazarus says:
    February 3, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    Those are nice, Glenn, but I thought you of all people would have put up some shots from Rivette’s Merry-Go-Round.

  • Jake says:
    February 3, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    All I can think of now is how badly Kinski slammed her in his autobiography.

  • James Keepnews says:
    February 4, 2011 at 10:12 am

    God, yes, my favor­ite scene, even bey­ond the legendary pen­ul­tim­ate track­ing shot (I adore the anonym­ous “life goes on” actu­al ulti­mate shot even more). I may have little love for David Thomson, but damned if he did­n’t nail The Passenger as one of the greatest films of the 70’s for a good stretch while the film was more or less out of cir­cu­la­tion. I am also with Jake where Ms. Schnieder’s, er, middle peri­od is con­cerned and Kinski’s infam­ously dubi­ous, batshit-uninhibited mem­oir siz­ing up her del­ic­ate con­di­tion as the time was, past as pro­logue, indelicate.

  • bill says:
    February 4, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    Elmore Leonard also talks up THE PASSENGER quite a bit in his nov­el KILLSHOT, which I always thought was interesting.

  • Lance says:
    February 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    I’ll echo many of the sen­ti­ments already present here. In par­tic­u­lar those of James, though I’d go as far as to say this is prob­ably my favor­ite sequence in the film which itself is my abso­lute favor­ite of the 70s. Transcendent.

  • Unkle Rusty says:
    February 4, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    Yeah, great screen caps. That high angle over the car, with the red leath­er­ette (or whatever that fab­ric is) back­ground­ing the abund­ant, mes­si­an­ic Exemplar of Youth (Schneider, look­ing behind) and the reced­ing hair­line of the dis­il­lu­sioned Old (Nicholson, look­ing for­ward) is Antonioni at his greatest.

  • Oliver_C says:
    February 5, 2011 at 3:56 am

    “The dis­il­lu­sioned Old”? Nicholson was only 38.