Blowup

Resource Information

The work Blowup represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Blowup

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Premier Productions Co., Inc. presents ; a Carlo Ponti production ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra ; directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni

Title variation

• Blow up
• Blow-up

Contributor

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Premier Productions (Firm)
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Yardbirds (Musical group)
• Antonioni, Michelangelo
• Birkin, Jane, 1946-
• Bond, Edward
• Bowles, Peter, 1936-
• Brunette, Peter
• Castle, John, 1940-
• Chagrin, Claude
• Chagrin, Julian
• Cortázar, Julio
• Di Palma, Carlo, 1925-2004
• Gorton, Assheton
• Guerra, Tonino
• Hancock, Herbie, 1940-
• Hemmings, David, 1941-2003
• Hills, Gillian, 1944-
• Miles, Sarah, 1941-
• Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007
• Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
• Rickards, Jocelyn, 1924-
• Veruschka

Subject

• Cortázar, Julio -- Film adaptations
• Evidence, Criminal -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- Italy
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Murder -- Drama
• Photographers -- England | London -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

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

Awards note

Winner, Palme d'Or (Michelangelo Antonioni), 1967 Cannes Film Festival ; Winner, Best Director (Michaelangelo Antonioni), Best Picture, 1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond ; director of photography, Carlo Di Palma ; music composed by Herbert Hancock ; "Stroll on" featured and composed by The Yardbirds ; art direction, Assheton Gorton ; production manager, Donald Toms ; costume designer, Jocelyn Rickards

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: not rated
• CHVRS rating : 14A

Language note

English (mono.) or French (mono.) dialogue with English, French or Spanish subtitles ; Closed captioned

PerformerNote

Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings ; with John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin

Runtime

111

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action