BLOW-UP (1966) - a film by Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni¿s Blow-Up (1966), a film about photography, social renegades, models, a mysterious woman, a mysterious body, and the evasive nature of reality. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film was a box office and critical hit, and is widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Prof. Saskia Ziolkowski will introduce the film which is being screened as the first in a series of three films of world cinema by Italian directors, drawing on literary works by Julio Cortázar, Giorgio Bassani, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, offered by the Tavola italiana in collaboration with Prof. Ziolkowsi's First Year Seminar on the theme of Adaptation: Cinema & Literature. The other films in the series are De Sica's 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis' (September 21) and Visconti's 'White Nights' (October 26).