Blow-Up

Szilvásy Nándor

Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Beschreibung

Size: B3 (cca. 50 x 35 cm). Test print of Szilv sy N ndor s Blow up poster maquette with a hand painted red in the letter O and signed in hand by Szilvasy with a pen at the bottom Exact size 33 5 x 49 5 cm Blowup or Blow Up is a 1966 British Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer played by David Hemmings who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film It was Antonioni s first entirely English language film The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave Sarah Miles John Castle Jane Birkin Tsai Chin and Gillian Hills as well as sixties model Veruschka The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond The film was produced by Carlo Ponti who had contracted Antonioni to make three English language films for Metro Goldwyn Mayer the others were Zabriskie Point and The Passenger The plot was inspired by Julio Cort zar s short story Las babas del diablo or The Devil s Drool 1959 translated also as Blow Up in Blow up and Other Stories and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock The music is diegetic as Hancock noted It s only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record Nominated for several awards at the Cannes Film Festival Blowup won the Grand Prix It was also ranked No 144 in the Sight amp Sound magazine greatest films poll The American release of the counterculture era film with its explicit sexual content by contemporary standards by a major Hollywood studio was in direct defiance of the Production Code Its subsequent outstanding critical and box office success proved to be one of the final events that led to the final abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system source wikipedia org. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6547

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Blow-Up

Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Einband: Paper, print, paint, pen.

Zustand: Fine, light creasing and wear.