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Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery [3] film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond [4] and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles.
to destroy something or kill someone with a bomb, or to be destroyed or killed by a bomb: They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. He drove over a landmine and his Jeep blew up. Fewer examples. A small band of guerrillas has blown up a train in the mountains.
Explore the narrative, stylistic, and thematic connections between Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, and Brian De Palma’s Blow Out with this video essay entitled Cross-Cut by Drew Morton.
Mar 28, 2017 · Blow-Up is indeed about photographic images and the elusiveness of the real, but it is also an exhilarating journey through the London scene of the midsixties—its youth culture, its fashions, its young professionals—and a mystery story that draws us in but offers no solution.
A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing.
Nov 8, 1998 · Blow-Up. Crime. 111 minutes ‧ 1966. Roger Ebert. November 8, 1998. 6 min read. A grainy encounter between David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in the park. Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence.
Dec 16, 2016 · Visiting swinging London to make Blowup in 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni played fast and loose with geography to make the definitive existential thriller of its time. Filmmaker Adam Scovell took a walk of the capital 50 years later to try to piece Antonioni’s city back together.
Blow-Up movie (1966) with David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave: Directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring David Hemmings as a “Swinging London” mod photographer, this 1966 classic was the filmmaker’s biggest box office hit.
A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, BLOW-UP takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
Blow-Up. In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature.
