Blowup [dvd videorecording]

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Title:

Blowup [dvd videorecording]

Author:

Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007, film producer.

ISBN:

9781681432670

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition.

Publication Information:

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 865.

Criterion collection ; 865.

General Note:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.

Story inspired by a short story by Julio Cortazar.

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 Bj©œrkman, the questionnaires the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, and the 1959 Julio Cort©Łzar short story on which the film is loosely based.

Contents:

disc 1. Blowup; special features -- disc 2. Special features.

Booklet: Cast -- Credits -- "In the details" / David Forgacs -- "On the set" / Stig Bj©œrkman -- Questionnaires -- "Blow-up" / Julio Cort©Łzar -- About the transfer.

Abstract:

A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.

Reading Level:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subject Term:

Photographers -- England -- London -- Drama -- DVDs.

Evidence, Criminal -- Drama -- DVDs.

Photography -- Enlarging -- Drama -- DVDs.

Murder -- Drama -- DVDs.

Added Author:

Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007,

Guerra, Tonino,