Blow-Up
1966, NR, 111 min.
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings.

One of the films that was in the forefront of the Sixties’ new approach to filmmaking, Antonioni’s Blow-Up remains a classic. Not only does the film capture a sense of swinging London in the form of the freewheeling photographer played by Hemmings, but it also questions reality and our suppositions about it. Did the photographer’s camera witness a crime in action or was it a hallucination? Will the photographer’s newfound passion for his work trump his indolent lifestyle? Blow-Up remains a revelation.

This article appears in July 29 • 2005.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.