The Real Blow Up, Sixties Film Documentary

Keith said:
I re-watched the original movie recently ... it hasn't aged well in my opinion. 😀
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I saw it a couple of weeks after it debuted. It already hadn't aged well then, or perhaps we had the wrong drugs. But, Jane Birkin.
Blow Up has aged better than Zabriskie Point though, which is saved only by the occasional scenery, but lacks Jane Birkin.
 
Supposedly, the film was inspired by a Sergio Larrain photo, but I was never able to find much detail regarding the full story.
 
Thanks for the link. I think the film is a wonderful portrait of Swinging London and it this sense it hasn't aged at all, the photography's superb as well. I recently bought a book about the making of the film: Blow-Up: Antonioni's Classic Film and Photography ISBN 978-3-775737371 which is fascinating.
 
lawrence said:
Thanks for the link. I think the film is a wonderful portrait of Swinging London and it this sense it hasn't aged at all, the photography's superb as well. I recently bought a book about the making of the film: Blow-Up: Antonioni's Classic Film and Photography ISBN 978-3-775737371 which is fascinating.
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Hard to believe that Jeff Beck will be 73 years old on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day. .
 
Richard G said:
I sort of agree, but still it was fabulous for the times.
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I still enjoyed it when I watched it a few months ago but didn't like Hemmings as much as I did originally. Very much a movie that represented the culture of its era.

I watched the Arbus movie at about the same time which was quite a contrast ... and really enjoyed it I might add though I'm not a Kidman fan at all.
 
Funny coincidence"that Amazon has just recommended Blow-Up on Blue-ray, even though I don't have a blue-ray player🙂 I should be less paranoid, I guess, because although Blow-up was at the top of the list, there were also recommendations for Contempt and Vertigo among others.
 
sevres_babylone said:
Funny coincidence"that Amazon has just recommended Blow-Up on Blue-ray, even though I don't have a blue-ray player🙂 I should be less paranoid, I guess, because although Blow-up was at the top of the list, there were also recommendations for Contempt and Vertigo among others.
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Those are all great films, Jack.

And so was Goddard's "Bande à part ".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNoxh8qZgU



And one of my favourite comedies from that time period, "Il Sorpasso".

https://vimeo.com/157128660
 
There used to be a website by a Londoner devoted to the film which was interesting (to me at least) because the gentleman had went to many of the locations all these years later and made photos of them.

Edit. Still around and with a ton of links now. https://sites.google.com/a/blowupthenandnow.com/blowup-then-now/latest-updates

Funny I remember emailing the guy to let him know about the 85/1.8 which for some reason he didnt know about despite the fact he had a dedicated site for the flick and that the information was all over the net. As I recall I first learned about it here...
 
I recently watched Blow Up for the first time. So I can't tell how well it's aged but I very much enjoyed it as a time capsule. The scene where he tosses away the broken guitar is hysterical!
And the ending - that's obviously where the Cohen brothers got their inspiration.
 
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