Blowup
(DVD) 

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Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017].
Format
DVD
Edition
Two DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 
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Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017].
Edition
Two DVD special edition.
Language
English
UPC
715515193016

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
General Note
Story inspired by a short story by Julio Cortazar.
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Carlo Di Palma ; music, Herbert Hancock ; "Stroll on" featured and composed by The Yardbirds ; dress designer, Jocelyn Rickards ; art director, Assheton Gorton.
Participants/Performers
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka [von Lehndorff], Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin.
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
System Details
DVD format; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Awards
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.

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