L'Avventura
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Nov 8, 1998 · Roger Ebert November 08, 1998. Tweet. A grainy encounter between David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in the park. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence.
169 out of 196 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink. Spoilers; limited review due to word limit. This film is an intense character study, essentially about emptiness in life. Thomas feels that everything in his life is superficial, and he wants to do something more than just take photographs.
Nov 23, 2011 · Jon Dennis. Wed 23 Nov 2011 08.48 EST. It was a real thrill, aged 16 and seeing Blow-Up, with its depiction of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, swinging London style. My enjoyment of the film's...
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2022. Robert Hatch The Nation. Blow-Up is a work of wit and caustic intelligence, superbly disciplined, elegantly styled, visually astonishing...
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- Picture 9/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 9/10
- Closing
In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s English-language debut. 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 f...
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Upmakes its way back into the Criterion Collection (previously receiving a LaserDisc edition from the label) with a new Blu-ray edition that presents the film in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 4K restoration conducted by Criterion and scanne...
Audio on the old Warner DVD was a little bit of a mess, and I think most attributed it to the original recordings. Though music and effects were generally okay dialogue was a bit hard to hear, sounding to have been recorded (or at least mixed) at a lower level. It was also a bit tinny and edgy and was just generally unpleasant. True, there isn’t a ...
As one would hope, especially for what is a really big “get” for Criterion, this a nicely loaded special edition, though it is oddly missing one significant pre-existing feature. The supplements begin with an excerpt from an interview with director Michelangelo Antonioni filmed in 1967 after his Palme d’or win (the notes make it sound like the exce...
It’s a really sharp release, just about what I would have hoped for the film. On top of getting some terrific supplementary material (and sharp looking digipak pacakge) it also gets a wonderful new audio/video presentation that breathes new life into the 50-year old film. It comes very highly recommended. BUY AT:
Blow-Up (sometimes styled as Blowup or Blow Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Also featured was 1960s model Veruschka.
Blow-Up movie (1966) review summary: In his first English-language film and most commercially successful effort, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the very perception of reality and breaks censorship barriers while creating a seminal work of art. Blow-Up was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
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