Blow-Up (1967 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up. Directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle and Peter Bowles, Blowup won the top prize at Cannes and was nominated for two Oscars.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/19/archives/screen-blowup-arrives-at-coronet-hero-switches-between-luxury-and.html), Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our documentary pick, D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back.