Blowup / Premier Productions Co., Inc. presents a Carlo Ponti production ; story by Michaelangel Antonioni ; screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra ; English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni.

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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Criterion collection ; 865.
Corporate Authors:	Yardbirds (Musical group) (Performer, composer (expression)) Premier Productions (Firm) (Presenter) Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors:	Antonioni, Michelangelo (Film director, Screenwriter) Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007 (Film producer) Guerra, Tonino (Screenwriter) Bond, Edward (Screenwriter) Di Palma, Carlo, 1925-2004 (director of photography.) Hancock, Herbie, 1940- (composer (expression)) Gorton, Assheton (Art director) Rickards, Jocelyn, 1924-2005 (Costume designer) Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- (Actor) Clarke, Frank, 1915-2002 (Editor of moving image work) Miles, Sarah, 1941- (Actor) Hemmings, David, 1941-2003 (Actor) Castle, John, 1940- (Actor) Birkin, Jane, 1946-2023 (Actor) Hills, Gillian, 1944- (Actor) Bowles, Peter, 1936-2022 (Actor) Veruschka (Actor) Chagrin, Julian (Actor) Chagrin, Claude (Actor) Brunette, Peter (Commentator) Cortázar, Julio
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published:	[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Edition:	Two-DVD special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 865.
Subjects:	Photographers > England > London > Drama. Evidence, Criminal > Drama. Photography > Enlarging > Drama. Murder > Drama. Cortázar, Julio > Film adaptations. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Detective and mystery films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Feature films. Feature films > Great Britain. Feature films > Italy. Feature films > United States. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:	Film adaptations. Drama. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Detective and mystery films. Fiction films. Feature films. Feature films Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Variant Title:	Blow-up Michael Antonioni's Blow-up
Format:	Video DVD

Description
Summary:	A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
Note:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. Story inspired by a sgort 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. Accompanied by a booklet featuring an essay, "In the details", 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.
Call Number:	PN1997.B674 A5 2017 VideoDVD
Audience:	MPAA rating: Not rated.
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.
ISBN:	9781681432670 1681432676
Credits:	Director of photography, Carlo Di Palma ; music, Herbert Hancock ; "Stroll on" featured and composed by The Yardbirds ; editor, Frank Clarke ; dress designer, Jocelyn Rickards ; art director, Assheton Gorton.
System Details:	DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Cast:	Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka [von Lehndorff], Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, The Yardbirds.