Blow-Up (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Description Product Description Blow-Up 1966 BLU-RAYIn 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni L’avventura transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation the Italian filmmaker’s English-language debut A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery starring David Hemmings Deep Red as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave Howards End and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew restored 4K digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack A new piece about director Michelangelo Antonioni’s artistic approach featuring photography curators Walter Moser and Philippe Garner and art historian David Alan MellorBlow-up of “Blow-Up,” a new 52-minute documentary on the making of the filmConversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa RedgraveArchival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jane BirkinTrailersPLUS A book featuring an essay by film scholar David Forgacs and more