Foreign Film: Antonioni’s Blow-Up
Blow-Up is Michelangelo Antonioni‘s countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image-making, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer in swinging London who unknowingly captures a murder on film after secretly following two lovers in a park. The film also features Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, Verushka, and music by Herbie Hancock and The Yardbirds. Nominated for two Oscars. (1966, cc, 111 minutes.)