Michelangelo Antonioni: Blow-Up (1966)

33mm print (color, sound) 111 min. Britain/USA/Italy

“Antonioni's foray into Swinging Sixties London is as metaphysical as it is sexy. This spellbinding picture-puzzle of a film derives its erotic charge as much from photographer Hemmings's determined pursuit of the ever-elusive "truth" contained in his grainy images—most mysteriously, a lovers' tryst in a deserted park that may or may not have ended in murder—as it does from his unfailing seduction of statuesque fashion models. Antonioni's sudden cuts in mid-action give Blow-Up the nervous rhythmic quality of jazz, and Herbie Hancock's exploration of piano and organ chords in their upper and lower registers bridges his hard-bop collaborations with Miles Davis in the early 1960s and his soul-funk-fusion excursions of the 1970s.”-Jazz Score, Exhibition Press Release.