Other author/creator | Antonioni, Michelangelo film director, screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007, film producer. |
Other author/creator | Guerra, Tonino screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | Bond, Edward, screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | Di Palma, Carlo, 1925-2004, director of photography. |
Other author/creator | Clarke, Frank, 1915-2002, editor of moving image work. |
Other author/creator | Hancock, Herbie, 1940- composer (expression) |
Other author/creator | Gorton, Assheton, art director. |
Other author/creator | Rickards, Jocelyn, 1924-2005 costume designer. |
Other author/creator | Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- actor. |
Other author/creator | Miles, Sarah, 1941- actor. |
Other author/creator | Hemmings, David, 1941-2003 actor. |
Other author/creator | Castle, John, 1940- actor. |
Other author/creator | Birkin, Jane, 1946-2023 actor. |
Other author/creator | Hills, Gillian, 1944- actor. |
Other author/creator | Bowles, Peter, 1936-2022 actor. |
Other author/creator | Veruschka, actor. |
Other author/creator | Chagrin, Julian, actor. |
Other author/creator | Chagrin, Claude, actor. |
Other author/creator | Brunette, Peter commentator. |
Other author/creator | Motion picture adaptation of (work): Cortázar, Julio Babas del diablo. |
Other author/creator | Yardbirds (Musical group), performer, composer (expression) |
Other author/creator | Premier Productions (Firm), presenter. |
Other author/creator | Criterion Collection (Firm) publisher. |
Variant title |
Title on spine of container: Blow-up |
Variant title |
Title on container: Michael Antonioni's Blow-up |
Physical medium | 4 3/4 in. stamping |
Series |
The Criterion collection ; 865 Criterion collection ; 865. ^A458475
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Contents |
Booklet: Cast -- Credits -- "In the details" / David Forgacs -- "On the set" / Stig Björkman -- Questionnaires -- "Blow-up" / Julio Cortázar -- About the transfer. |
Contents |
disc 1. Blowup; special features -- disc 2. Special features. |
Abstract |
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. |
General note | Wide screen (1.85:1). |
General note | Special features on new piece 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," 52 minute documentary; teaser; trailer; Conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave; archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jank Birkin; 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. |
General note | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. |
General note | Story inspired by a short story by Julio Cortazar. |
Credits | Director of photography, Carlo Di Palma ; music, Herbert Hancock ; "Stroll on" featured and composed by The Yardbirds ; editor, Frank Clarke ; dress designer, Jocelyn Rickards ; art director, Assheton Gorton. |
Cast |
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka [von Lehndorff], Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, The Yardbirds. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Technical details | DVD; region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono. |
Language | English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
Awards note | National Society of Film Critics, USA, 1967: NFSC - Best Director (Michaelangelo Antonioni) ; Best Picture ; Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay. |
Genre/form | Thrillers (Motion pictures) |
Genre/form | Detective and mystery films. |
Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
Genre/form | Fiction films. |
Genre/form | Feature films. |
Genre/form | Feature films Great Britain. |
Genre/form | Feature films Italy. |
Genre/form | Feature films United States. |
Genre/form | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Genre/form | Detective and mystery films. |
Genre/form | Feature films. |
Genre/form | Fiction films. |
Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
Genre/form | Thrillers (Motion pictures) |
Genre/form | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
ISBN | 9781681432670 |
ISBN | 1681432676 |
UPC |
715515193016 |
Standard identifier# |
00715515193016 |
Publisher number | CC2731D Criterion Collection |
Publisher number | CC2731D-1--CC2731D-2 Criterion Collection |
Govt. docs number |
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