Double Feature: BLOW-UP, 1966, DCP! BLOW OUT, 1981 October 19, 2012

Friday, October 19 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: BLOW-UP, 1966, Warner Bros., 111 min. Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. In-demand fashion photographer David Hemmings shags half the models in London - before running into enigmatic beauty Vanessa Redgrave, who only wants a certain roll of film from him. A riddle within a riddle, Antonioni’s most famous film has often been imitated (De Palma’s BLOW OUT, Greenaway’s THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT). Look for a young Jane Birkin in one of her first film appearances - and for The Yardbirds mimicking The Who’s penchant for auto-destruction in the film’s frenzied nightclub scene! [35mm]
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31mj_afO4w
DCP! BLOW OUT, 1981, MGM/Park Circus, 107 min. John Travolta gives one of his best performances as Jack Terry, a sound-effects man in the wrong place at the wrong time, who accidentally records a fatal car crash that might be a hushed-up political assassination. Combining forces with escort Sally (Nancy Allen) - an eyewitness with an, er, intimate knowledge of the crash - Jack begins piecing together the whitewashed incident, even as his and Sally’s lives become increasingly endangered. A brashly stylish reflection on the corruption of American patriotism and politics from director Brian De Palma. With John Lithgow. [DCP]
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM4fM-R3HC8

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