- Variant Title:
Title on spine of container: Blow-up
Title on container: Michael Antonioni's Blow-up
- Series:
The Criterion collection ; 865
- Published:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
- Language:
English
- 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.
- Performers/Participants:
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka [von Lehndorff], Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, The Yardbirds.
- System Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- Notes:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Story inspired by a short story by Julio Cortazar.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
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.
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.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
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诲kman, the questionnaires the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, and the 1959 Julio Cort⡺ar short story on which the film is loosely based.
- Description:
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
- Description Details:
Dimensions: 4 3/4 in.
Technique: stamping
Recording type: digital
Recording medium: optical
Channels: monaural
Special audio characteristics: Dolby digital
Presentation format: widescreen
Broadcast standard: NTSC
File type: video file
Regional encoding: region 1
File format: DVD video
- ISBN:
9781681432670
1681432676
- OCLC Number:
972351095
- Other Identifiers:
Global Trade Identification Number 14: 00715515193016
Video Publisher Number: CC2731D (Criterion Collection; set)
Video Publisher Number: CC2731D-1 (Criterion Collection; disc 1)
Video Publisher Number: CC2731D-2 (Criterion Collection; disc 2)
- UPC:
UPC: 715515193016
- System ID:
007821204