Now available in the director's slightly longer preferred version, Michelangelo Antonioni's Jack Nicholson vehicle looks better now than it did 30 years ago, in part because it's so clearly passé. A celebrity telejournalist (Nicholson) attempting to report on a North African liberation movement ventures into terrain that mirrors his own emptiness. Then fate takes a hand. The only other Westerner in his edge-of-the-Sahara hotel conveniently suffers a coronary. Nicholson switches passports to assume an exciting new identity. Following the dead man's itinerary, he is now a left-leaning... More >>>