Blow-Up (Michael Antonioni, 1966) Simon Weaving March 2017 Love Letters: 1967 Fifty years ago, on 12 May 1967, the Jury of the Cannes Film Festival awarded its top prize to Blow-Up, Michael Antonioni’s first English language film. Shot in London in late summer the previous year, it has i...
Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris Simon Weaving August 2008 Book Reviews It is one of the most iconic film posters of the last 50 years. A shapely female leg splits the image horizontally, stocking halfway off, or halfway on – it doesn’t really matter, you get the picture. Beyond th...
