Episode 183 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up

This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Trevor Berrett discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 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. 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. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.

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Episode Links

• Blow-Up (1966) – The Criterion Collection
• Blow-Up (1966) – IMDb
• Blow-Up – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
• Trevor’s review of Blow-Up
• David and Arik’s conversation about Blow-Up
• Criterion Now Episode with Blow-Up

Episode Credits

• Scott Nye (Twitter/Website)
• Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)
• David Blakeslee (Twitter/Website)

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