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Widescreen Editions Blowup Blow-Up Widescreen CAV Criterion #48 Rare LaserDisc Antonioni Mystery

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Blow-Up

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( Catalog Number CC1148L )
(1.85:1) (4 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

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Blow-Up
1966 - 102 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

A masterpiece of 1960s art-house cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up is a dizzying exploration of images, appearances, and existence amid the mod glamour of Swinging '60s London. Antonioni took his signature influence of existentialist philosophy, seen in such earlier films as L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), The Eclipse (1962), and Red Desert (1964), and pushed it to full-scale reflexivity: instead of just questioning existence, he questioned the nature of reality itself. Just as Thomas blows up his photographs until they are pure abstraction, Antonioni uses deliberately odd framing, expressionistic use of color, and an extremely long telephoto lens, which crushes depth from the image, to make the film look both striking and opaque. Thomas himself is adrift in this world: absorbed in the surfaces of things yet unable to perceive intrinsic beauty, he finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish objective reality from the simulacra of advertising and fashion photography. By the end of the film, he is no longer certain if distinctions among image, illusion, and reality even exist. The film's brilliantly dense philosophical underpinnings aside, its Rear Window-esque plot makes it a compelling piece of work. Moreover, it features some of the most memorable sequences in cinema: the pantomime tennis match at the end of the film, the naughty mnage  trois on purple paper, and the almost farcically erotic photo shoot at the beginning of the film between model Veruschka and Thomas with his oversized camera lens. Blow Up proved extremely influential on younger generations of filmmakers; and it was later echoed by both Francis Ford Coppola in The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma in Blow Out (1981). --- Jonathan Crow

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Cast for Blow-Up

David Hemmings - Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave - Jane
Sarah Miles - Patricia
Peter Bowles - Ron
John Castle - Painter
Jane Birkin - Girl
Gillian Hills - The Brunette
Jeff Beck - Himself with The Yardbirds
Peggy Moffitt
Jimmy Page - Himself with The Yardbirds
Susan Broderick - Antique Shop Owner
The Yardbirds
Ann Norman
Tsai Chin - Receptionist
Julian Chagrin - Mime
Veruschka - Model
Ronan O'Casey - Jane's Lover in Park
Harry Hutchinson - Shopkeeper
Jill Kennington

Crew for Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni - Director / Screenwriter
Carlo Ponti - Producer
Edward Bond - Screenwriter
Julio Cortazar - Story Author
Tonino Guerra - Screenwriter
Carlo Di Palma - Cinematographer
Herbie Hancock - Composer (Music Score)
The Yardbirds - Composer (Music Score)
Frank Clarke - Editor
Assheton Gorton - Production Designer / Set Designer
Pierre Rouve - Executive Producer
Jocelyn Rickards - Costume Designer
Paul Rabiger - Makeup
Donald Toms - Production Manager

Awards for Blow-Up

Best Director (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Edward Bond 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Tonino Guerra 1966 Academy
Best Foreign Film - English Language (nom) 1966 Golden Globe
Best Director (win) 1966 National Society of Film Critics
Best Film (win) 1966 National Society of Film Critics
Best Direction (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 New York Film Critics Circle
Best British Film Michelangelo Antonioni 1967 British Academy Awards
International Grand Prix (win) 1967 Cannes International Film Festival

Feature Details

Title: Blow-Up
Feature Release Date: 1966
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 102 Minutes
Chapters: 20
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CAV

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Catalog Number: CC1148L
UPC: 715515000130
ISBN: 0-931393-80-9
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1148L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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( Catalog Number CC1148L )
(1.85:1) (4 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

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Blow-Up
1966 - 102 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

A masterpiece of 1960s art-house cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up is a dizzying exploration of images, appearances, and existence amid the mod glamour of Swinging '60s London. Antonioni took his signature influence of existentialist philosophy, seen in such earlier films as L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), The Eclipse (1962), and Red Desert (1964), and pushed it to full-scale reflexivity: instead of just questioning existence, he questioned the nature of reality itself. Just as Thomas blows up his photographs until they are pure abstraction, Antonioni uses deliberately odd framing, expressionistic use of color, and an extremely long telephoto lens, which crushes depth from the image, to make the film look both striking and opaque. Thomas himself is adrift in this world: absorbed in the surfaces of things yet unable to perceive intrinsic beauty, he finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish objective reality from the simulacra of advertising and fashion photography. By the end of the film, he is no longer certain if distinctions among image, illusion, and reality even exist. The film's brilliantly dense philosophical underpinnings aside, its Rear Window-esque plot makes it a compelling piece of work. Moreover, it features some of the most memorable sequences in cinema: the pantomime tennis match at the end of the film, the naughty mnage  trois on purple paper, and the almost farcically erotic photo shoot at the beginning of the film between model Veruschka and Thomas with his oversized camera lens. Blow Up proved extremely influential on younger generations of filmmakers; and it was later echoed by both Francis Ford Coppola in The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma in Blow Out (1981). --- Jonathan Crow

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Cast for Blow-Up

David Hemmings - Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave - Jane
Sarah Miles - Patricia
Peter Bowles - Ron
John Castle - Painter
Jane Birkin - Girl
Gillian Hills - The Brunette
Jeff Beck - Himself with The Yardbirds
Peggy Moffitt
Jimmy Page - Himself with The Yardbirds
Susan Broderick - Antique Shop Owner
The Yardbirds
Ann Norman
Tsai Chin - Receptionist
Julian Chagrin - Mime
Veruschka - Model
Ronan O'Casey - Jane's Lover in Park
Harry Hutchinson - Shopkeeper
Jill Kennington

Crew for Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni - Director / Screenwriter
Carlo Ponti - Producer
Edward Bond - Screenwriter
Julio Cortazar - Story Author
Tonino Guerra - Screenwriter
Carlo Di Palma - Cinematographer
Herbie Hancock - Composer (Music Score)
The Yardbirds - Composer (Music Score)
Frank Clarke - Editor
Assheton Gorton - Production Designer / Set Designer
Pierre Rouve - Executive Producer
Jocelyn Rickards - Costume Designer
Paul Rabiger - Makeup
Donald Toms - Production Manager

Awards for Blow-Up

Best Director (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Edward Bond 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Tonino Guerra 1966 Academy
Best Foreign Film - English Language (nom) 1966 Golden Globe
Best Director (win) 1966 National Society of Film Critics
Best Film (win) 1966 National Society of Film Critics
Best Direction (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film (nom) Michelangelo Antonioni 1966 New York Film Critics Circle
Best British Film Michelangelo Antonioni 1967 British Academy Awards
International Grand Prix (win) 1967 Cannes International Film Festival

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