Blow-Up (Classic)

The combination of Swinging London, naked fashion models, a cameo appearance by the Yardbirds and the modish cinephilia of the mid 1960’s turned Blow-Up into a must-see movie. Antonioni’s first English language feature is a masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making. A psychological mystery that, the more abstract it becomes, the more gripping it gets. A seductive immersion into creative passion and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists. Seldom screened these days, this is a rare big-screen viewing opportunity!

87% – Rotten Tomatoes

7.4 / 10 – IMDB

“Antonioni purges filmmaking of much of its theatricality, emphasizing strands of cinematic DNA that have their roots in dance, painting, architecture, and photography, celebrating the power of negative space as a revealer of emotional texture.”

“Antonioni, a celebrated Italian director making his first English-language film, seems to believe that the legend of Swinging London was a charade built on a wobbly edifice of marketing and self-mythology”