Blow-Up (1966)
Blow-Up (1966)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
David Hemmings
Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave
Jane
Sarah Miles
Patricia
John Castle
Bill
Veruschka von Lehndorff
Veruschka
Jane Birkin
The Blonde
Gillian Hills
The Brunette
Peter Bowles
Ron
Julian Chagrin
Mime
Claude Chagrin
Mime
Jimmy Page
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Jeff Beck
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Tsai Chin
Thomas's Receptionist (uncredited)
Susan Brodrick
Antique Shop Owner (uncredited)
Peggy Moffitt
Model (uncredited)
Melanie Hampshire
Model (uncredited)
Roy Beck
Boy dancing In Ricki Tick Club (uncredited)
Charlie Bird
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Robin Burns
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Julio Cortázar
Homeless Man (uncredited) / Author
Chris Dreja
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Lew Hooper
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Harry Hutchinson
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Chas Lawther
Waiter (uncredited)
Dyson Lovell
Man Outside Restaurant (uncredited)
Jack Mandeville
Man with Poodle (uncredited)
Jim McCarty
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Keith Relf
Self - The Yardbirds (uncredited)
Ann Norman
Model (uncredited)
Ronan O'Casey
Jane's Lover in Park (uncredited)
Janet Street-Porter
Girl Dancing In Ricky Tick Club (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Homeless Man (uncredited)
Tina Simmons
Dancing Girl in Ricky Tick Club (uncredited)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay / Director / Story
Tonino Guerra
Screenplay
Herbie Hancock
Original Music Composer
Carlo Di Palma
Director of Photography
Frank Clarke
Editor
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Edward Bond
Dialogue
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 18, 1966
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Content RatingNR
Budget$1,800,000
Filming LocationsPottery Lane · Maryon Park · Amalgamated Studios · Regent Street · Stockwell · London, United Kingdom
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is featured as herself, and Jane Birkin makes her first film appearance. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the English rock group The Yardbirds are seen performing "Stroll On". The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma.
The plot was inspired by Argentine-French writer Julio Cortázar's 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo", which was later retitled "Blow-Up" to tie in with the film. Set within the contemporary mod subculture of Swinging London, the film follows a fashion photographer (Hemmings) who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.
In the main competition of the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honour. The American release of the counterculture-era film with its explicit sexual content defied Hollywood's Production Code, and its subsequent critical and commercial success influenced the abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system.
Blowup has influenced subsequent films including Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). In 2012, it was ranked No. 144 in the Sight and Sound critics' poll of the greatest films of all time and No. 59 in the directors' poll.