Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni

A couple of weeks ago now I had the great pleasure to watch Antonioni's classic Blow Up. And since then I haven't stopped thinking about it.

Again it was shown at the Chauvel, so thank you for that.

Now the film itself when I think about it, isn't great, it has a lot of superflous stuff in it that just makes you wonder why you would put it in the film. But the core dilemma of David Hemming's photographer who stumbles onto shooting a murder, is sublime. The sequence where he goes about blowing up his photo's to search for clues is mezmerising. This is what cinema of today is missing. Suspense through story not by tricks or music. The film's dilemma was later remade into one of my favourite films Blow Out with Travolta and directed by De Palma.

Do yourself a favour and try and see both these films and go back to find a time when cinema was worth something to the people making it other than trying to buy themselves a big house.

Thank chauvel for showing these great films and thank you Michelangelo Antonioni for making them.