| Note |
Some include 64 page booklet. |
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Title from sell sheet. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. |
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Special features: new restored 4K digital transfer ; new pieces 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" a 2016 documentary on the making of the film ; conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave ; archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jane Birkin ; trailers ; PLUS: a book featuring an 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. |
| Credits |
English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond ; cinematographer, Carlo Di Palma ; art director, Assheton Gorton ; music, Herbert Hancock ; costume designer, Jocelyn Rickards. |
| Cast |
Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka. |
| Summary |
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| System details |
DVD; monaural, 1.85:1 aspect ratio, Dolby digital, NTSC, region 1. |
| Awards |
National Society of Film Critics, USA, 1967: NFSC - Best Director (Michaelangelo Antonioni); Best Picture. |
| Subject |
Photographers -- Drama.
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Murder -- Drama.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Series |
Criterion collection ; 865
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| Add'l Names |
Antonioni, Michelangelo, screenwriter, film director.
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Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007, film producer.
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Guerra, Tonino, screenwriter.
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Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- actor.
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Miles, Sarah, 1941- actor.
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Hemmings, David, 1941-2003, actor.
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Castle, John, 1940- actor.
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Birkin, Jane, 1946-2023, actor.
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Hills, Gillian, 1944- actor.
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Bowles, Peter, 1936- actor.
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Veruschka, actor.
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Chagrin, Julian, actor.
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Chagrin, Claude, actor.
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Di Palma, Carlo, 1925-2004, director of photography.
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Hancock, Herbie, 1940- composer (expression)
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Rickards, Jocelyn, 1924- costume designer.
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Gorton, Assheton, art director.
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Bond, Edward, screenwriter.
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Brunette, Peter, commentator.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Cortázar, Julio.
Babas del diablo.
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| Other corporate author |
Yardbirds (Musical group), performer, composer (expression)
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681432670
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| STANDARD # |
715515193016 |
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CC2731DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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