Blow Up (DVD)

...scene. OVERALL Blow up was certainly Antonioni’s most commercial and probably his best film, he went on to make Zabriskie Point (1970), which is also rightly, considered a classic of the period. The storyline is slight not really a mystery if anything more of a psychological drama but in the end the importance of the murder plot is superficial the really important aspect of the film is the visual style and sound Antonioni employs. Style over substance? ...
...film maybe you’re thinking of Blow Out a poor remake in the 80’s starring John Travolta as a sound engineer who captures a murder on tape…one to avoid! ‘Blow Up’ is available on DVD from Play.com for £7.99 delivered. Thanks for reading and rating this review. © Mauri 2005 ...

Mauri 25.02.2005 · Read full review
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Blow Up is a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The film is about a talented photographer called Thomas (David Hemmings), who becomes bored of taking glamorous photos of models. He resorts to photographing, in a documentary style, the seamy and sordid side of life in slums and flophouses. Innocently, he takes candid photographs in a deserted park of a lover's rendezvous between a young woman called Jane (Vanessa Redgrave) and a middle-aged ...
...her and the man, pursues Thomas to ask for the illicit photos. He imagines that he has witnessed a scene of sexual intrigue - never thinking that he may have accidentally obtained photographic evidence of a murder. Or has he? The film involves illusions, appearances, and reality, and the sequences of the people on the rag or mimes, as many will see them blur the line between fantasy and the reality. Interaction between the characters mainly is through ...

galaxynicole 16.03.2005 (30.03.2005) · Read full review
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...The book “Focus on Blow Up” puts together pieces by some of the foremost critics of the day, most of whom agree that “Blow Up” is a totally original film which ranks as one of the most important ever made. Of course, I’m sure that Darren from Walthamstow knows better... ...

Luke 11.08.2000 · Read full review
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