Blow-up

[1966, Movie]

Blow-up : Review

A pop-culture icon that has become a cult classic. Michelangelo Antonioni's adaptation of Cortazar's short story is a gripping and artistic existential mystery that's also an evocative '60s time-capsule of mod "Swinging London," replete with rock and roll, nude models, war protesters, mimes, orgies and pot parties. David Hemmings stars as a successful London fashion photographer who thinks he may have inadvertently caught a murder on film. Read the complete review for Blow-up

Blow-up : Cast & Details

Year: 1966
Rated NR

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Cast
David Hemmings: Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave: Jane
Sarah Miles: Patricia
Jane Birkin: Teenager #1
Gillian Hills: Teenager #2
Peter Bowles: Ron

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Blow-up : TV Guide News

DVD TUESDAY: Blow-up and the Dark Side of the Cool, Swingin' 1960s | Ask FlickChick | 8/7/2007
DVD Tuesday: Alienation, miniskirts and Swinging London: The late Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up wraps a mystery in an groovy existential enigma.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcast!Hear Maitland on the weekly podcast TV Guide Talk!My tiny tribute to the late Michelangelo Antonioni – who died last week on the same day as fellow film great Ingmar Bergman – is making Blow-up (1966), the film that spaked many a heated argument about what it all meant, this week's DVD Tuesday pick. And of course, the photo-shoot sequence featuring star David Hemmings and pioneering superstar model Veruschka regularly turns up on lists of the sexiest movie scenes, so there's something for everyone. Based loosely on a short story by Argentine experimental writer Julio Cortazar, it's set in London in the mid-1960s, when London's scene — music, fashion, art, clubs — was the coolest in the... read more

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"Hemmings is a difficult actor to care about,"
Well he was supposed to be. His character was meant to be flippant and reprehensible, shallow and restless. read more
Posted by xeokym May 9, 2007 3:14 PM

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