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Blowup (Criterion Collection)

Blowup (Criterion Collection)

Warner Bros. (1966)
Blu-ray
NR (Not Rated)
715515192910
Drama | Foreign | Music | Mystery | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 01:51

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. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.


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Vanessa Redgrave Jane
Sarah Miles Patricia
David Hemmings Thomas
John Castle Bill
Jane Birkin The Blonde
Gillian Hills The Brunette
Peter Bowles Ron
Veruschka von Lehndorff Verushka
Julian Chagrin Mime
Claude Chagrin Mime
Jeff Beck Self - The Yardbirds
Roy Beck Boy dancing In Ricki Tick Club
Charlie Bird Homeless Man
Susan Brodrick Antique shop owner
Robin Burns Homeless Man
Tsai Chin Thomas's receptionist
Julio Cortázar Homeless Man
Chris Dreja Self - The Yardbirds
Vince Fleming Man in Dance Hall
Melanie Hampshire Model
Lew Hooper Pedestrian
Harry Hutchinson Shopkeeper
Jill Kennington Model
Mary Khal Fashion editor
Chas Lawther Waiter

Trailer

Edition details

Edition Criterion Collection
Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks PCM Mono [English]
Subtitles English (SDH)
Distributor Criterion Collection
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Mar 28, 2017
Regions Region A

Personal

Watched
Index 2008
Added Date Feb 21, 2018 20:34:35
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:34:36

Notes

Birthday gift 2018 from Mom and Dad

Disc Features
New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New pieces 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,” a 2016 documentary on the making of the film
Conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave
Archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jane Birkin
Trailers
PLUS: A book featuring an essay by film scholar David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film’s shooting by Stig Björkman, the questionnaires the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, and the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based

New cover by Rodrigo Corral

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