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Episode 183 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up
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English - June 23, 2017 13:00 - 81.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTV & Film Arts Visual Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Trevor Berrett discuss Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film 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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