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Movie Reviews of Blow Up
Movie Review: One of the Best Films of All Time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Michelangelo Antonioni's breathtaking masterpiece is without a doubt one of the all time greats(probably around #25-30 ever). It had almost become a forgotten gem until it finally got released on DVD. Nows a chance for everyone who says that they are film buffs to indulge in one of the best mind game movies ever. This is probably the second best art film ever, behind David Lynch's "Eraserhead" of course. The plot is not really important in the grand sceme of the movie. It is more about the arc of the main character, how he feels about his love life, career, and his place in society. The symbolism and imagery in the film is endless. Even though Blow Up has been analyzed and watched frame by frame by so many people, for so many years, I still doubt that anyone has discovered the true meaning of the film. But enough of the praise for the film, and on to the DVD. The quality is amazing. The colors that Antonioni chose so carefully are shown so clearly that they begin to bleed right into your head. You will be seeing colors and images from the film in your mind for weeks afterward, as I have. The sound is also great. The DVD is well worth the relatively low price. The commentary track is not as bad as everyone says, it is just that the author does not really take a stand on the films multiple meanings. But all in all, you can't say you know movies until you have seen Blow Up. And if you don't like it the first time, I recommend seeing it a second time. Little details become alot more interesting & clear on second viewing. You will be treating yourself to a masterpiece.Movie Review: Movies as litmus tests
Summary: 5 Stars
Another film that brings out the moral venality in Amazon "reviewers". I particularly love the one who was "forced" to watch it in a friend's film class & found it a "waist" of time. Let's see...the waist is where things ingested pass through on their way to the digestion process. But I doubt he was being that profound.Then there are the ones who find the film dated, London too empty & the main character a horrible nasty. Well folks, it's true there are no friendly wizards, cute goblins or funny ogres in this one, so it may taste like harsh medicine to some. But Blow-Up was a real slice of the 1960s, take it or leave it. Not just the "life-style" (clothes, decor & behavior) which is perfectly rendered (& is probably what dates the film the most) but the sheer fragmentation of time & space, of event & response. This was Antonioni's particular area of expertise: space & emptiness filled with random human collisions supposedly suffused with "meaning".
Well, we certainly have adopted different attitudes today, haven't we? Everything with its socio-political subtext. The big problem, I think, with a movie like Blow-Up is that it doesn't easily let you pick which Side to Be On. It's very European in that way (Old Europe, to use current parlance).
Hey folks, when you look at a De Chirico (you should, you know), do you find the streets too empty, the perspectives too stark & arbitrary?
Movie Review: BLOW UP AT LAST ON DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always thought this film was a masterpiece until I saw it the other day on DVD and now I think it's a total mega masterpiece by a total god!If you ever wondered if DVD was worth getting then compare this to the VHS version. There is no comparison.
In brief this is about David Hemmings running around London in Jimmy Savilles Roller in May 1966 looking cool and taking photos.
This film is about style not content.
The colour in the film and the depth is amazing.Watch out for the photo shoot with the models and look at the reflextions, it's almost 3D.
Also it's in W/S and not 4:3 and you at last get to see what Michelangelo Antonioni wanted you to see and this also has a dramatic effect on the sum total of this movie.This is certainly true of the trip to Maryon Wilson park where 'Thomas' photos 'Jane' and her lover who in 'Thomas's' words 'is a bit past it'.
The extras are fine but this version is slighly longer than the VHS version which is the best part about it. Watch out for the man who appears out of nowhere when 'Thomas' sounds of his horn in Holland park.The sound is fine but two main back ground noises have been removed, I leave you to work that one out. This may have never been there in the first place in the USA version so will be interesting to see what becomes of it in the UK DVD which is out in April.
All in all this is a fitting tribute to the late great David Hemmings who sadly died last year aged 62.
Movie Review: I used to hate this film, but....
Summary: 5 Stars
I used to hate Antonioni. I took some film classes years ago, and all the "professors" were raving about Antonioni, and this film in particular. They talked about what everything means, the "symbolism", the deeper meanings. They were determined to take out all the joy of the film before I even saw it.
Now that I've been out of school, I've forgotten all the BS they spewed, and I like Antonioni's work. This is a great film, as great as its reputation suggests. Antonioni is one of a small number of filmmakers who immersed himself entirely in a different culture (in this case, Swinging London), and made a film worthy of it (some examples of this phenomenon are Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala, Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice, and recently, Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima). If you didn't know that Antonioni was Italian, you would have sworn the film was directed by an Englishman. It's a unique, fascinating piece of cinema. There isn't much dialogue, but most of it is pretty good. It has some great setpieces, including The Yardbirds' concert at the end, the tennis game, the walk in the park, the "wrestling" scene, and the "blow up" scene. At the end of the film, you're not sure what happened, but you know something did. It's really an exceptional, thought provoking film, one of the best films of the 1960's and one of the most successful art films ever made. Don't let film teachers ruin films for you.
Movie Review: A Masterpiece of Alienation
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether viewing this film as a time capsule of alienated youth in mod London of the 60s, or seeing it as one man's mental disintegration, this film is a classic to be admired by generations to come. Antonioni, the great Italian filmmaker, turns his x-ray lens on a British photographer (played with cranky verne by the late David Hemmings) who is so self-obsessed that he has disconnected himself from reality. Blithely moving from situation to situation without focus until he comes across what appears to be a murder in a series of random photos taken in the park one day, Hemmings faces a moral and mental crisis he cannot turn away from. One of the people he intrudes upon is Vanessa Redgrave, who will stop at nothing to obtain the photos. The meaning of the photographs is not as important as Hemmings's reaction to them. If he has uncoverd a murder, will he get involved? The haunting ending with the invisible tennis game surely had audiences shaking their heads. Examined within the context of the film itself, it makes perfect sense. This film also contains a rare concert performance by the Yardbirds featuring both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Some of the still shots from the movie (Hemmings's photo shoot with the model Verushka and his bare chested pose with Redgrave in his studio) have become iconic statements of the 60s. A film to see again and again, gleaning new meaning from each viewing.