Blow-up / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Premier Productions Co., Inc. presents a Carlo Ponti production ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra ; directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2731DDVD | The Criterion CollectionPublisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Edition: Special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681432670
- 1681432676
- Original title: Blowup
- At head of title on container: Michael Antonioni's Blow-up
- English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond ; cinematographer, Carlo Di Palma ; art director, Assheton Gorton ; music, Herbert Hancock ; costume designer, Jocelyn Rickards.
- National Society of Film Critics, USA, 1967: NFSC - Best Director (Michaelangelo Antonioni) ; Best Picture.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Blow-up | Checked out | insert has liquid damage 10/23/23 | 05/17/2024 | 33111009045887 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his "fab" but oddly-lifeless existence of casual sex and drug use, Thomas comes alive when he wanders through a park, stops to take pictures of a couple embracing, and upon developing the images, believes that he has photographed a murder. Pursued by Jane (Vanessa Redgrave), the woman who is in the photos, Thomas pretends to give her the pictures, but in reality, he passes off a different roll of film to her. Thomas returns to the park and discovers that there is, indeed, a dead body lying in the shrubbery: the gray-haired man who was embracing Jane. Has she murdered him, or does Thomas' photo reveal a man with a gun hiding nearby? Antonioni's thriller is a puzzling, existential, adroitly-assembled masterpiece. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Title from disc label.
Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka.
English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond ; cinematographer, Carlo Di Palma ; art director, Assheton Gorton ; music, Herbert Hancock ; costume designer, Jocelyn Rickards.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
DVD release of the 1966 motion picture.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay.
Special features: new piece about director Michelangelo Antonioni's artistic approach, featuring photography curators Walter Moser and Philippe Garner and art historian David Alan Mellor; Blow-up of "Blow-up," 52 minute documentary; conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave; archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jank Birkin; trailers; essay by film scholar David Forgacs and more.
National Society of Film Critics, USA, 1967: NFSC - Best Director (Michaelangelo Antonioni) ; Best Picture.