Jack Nicholson pops by the Brunswick Centre

Short clip from Antonioni's 1975 Palme d'Or winning film The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson. The film's locations include the Sahara desert, Barcelona, Seville and London. While in  London there's short excursion for Nicholson's journalist character through the Brunswick Centre, the modernist terraced shopping centre, cinema and sloping-roofed apartment complex in Bloomsbury which was just being completed.

The Brunswick is one of my favourite places in London. I loved it when it when the shopping centre was all-but-derelict, and the excellent noodle bar The Hare and Tortoise was the only real attraction, and I love the renovated centre, with it's posh shops and restaurants and busy plazas. Still, it's very odd to see it newly completed back in the 70s, with an international film star wandering round it. Here Antonioni doesn't have to do much to make it look amazing. Point and click, really.