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BLOW-UP  

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Year: 1966
Runtime: 111 min.
Country: UK/Italy
Language: English
Color: Color
Format: 16mm

Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, The Passenger) delivers yet another masterful cinematic expose with BLOW-UP, a provocative mystery set in the seamy mod culture of London. The film follows a photographer (David Hemmings) who captures evidence of a murder when he takes some innocent snapshots of a couple in the park. As he digs deeper and deeper into the photograph's actual negative in order to unravel the mystery, he also must contend with a seemingly dangerous woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who knows more than she is letting on. Atmospheric, tense, with a refreshing jolt of humor, Antonioni's stylish thriller strongly influenced the work of many of cinema's most celebrated directors, including Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Brian De Palma's Blow Out, and David Lynch's Blue Velvet.


" A great film." — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"It is vintage Antonioni fortified with a Hitchcock twist. A stunning picture."
— Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

" One of the seminal films of the 1960s. Antonioni's thriller is a puzzling, existential, adroitly-assembled masterpiece." — Karl Williams, All Movie Guide


 

 
showtime
Monday, September 11 at 7 pm
location
THE GREEN ROOM
144 West Street
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS members