Blow-Up

“Blow-Up. Okay. I saw this Antonioni film at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, and when I saw this film, there was an intermission and then it was going to be Zabriskie Point. And I met my husband there, my son’s daddy... Anyway, it’s a really interesting film and I feel like, I don’t know if this is really lame to say, I feel like Austin Powers was based on Blow-Up. Does that resonate for anyone? Am I insane?”

“Blow-Up. Antonioni. Yeah this movie I watched I was doing a short film years ago and I was playing a photographer and the filmmaker had me watch Blow-Up and it's such a good one it's a classic.”

“Blow-Up. It has like a crazy energy and the mystery is like just hovering and there's just so much like tension and misunderstanding and it's like a film I watch, it's like a train wreck. I don't even know like what I'm waiting for sometimes. So I'm gonna take it home and watch it again and try and figure it out.”

“Blow-Up. I love the films that have a character that is the worst person to solve a crime or solve a situation. This is a photographer that just discovers something and goes into a whole kind of an adventure that also is quite meaningless as well. I think nowadays if we look at it, we can see how much free time we had before we had telephones and Instagram and those kind of things. People would wonder and run into situations.”

“I'm going to take Blow-Up. I just saw actually Blow Out the other day, it was a lot of fun, it was very nice, but I really love this film.”

“Antonioni's Blow-Up. Herbie Hancock, the way I came to this movie was actually through its music. There's a great song on this that is very identifiable from the Deee-Lite song 'Groove Is in the Heart.' This movie's great. It was later sort of remade as Blow Out. In this case, this was not about sound, it's about footage. So it's about a photographer that accidentally captures a murder and the sort of world that he descends into in trying to decipher what that was.”

“Blow-Up. As I remember, it was kind of because he shot it with, who's the young English actor, David Hemmings? But it was another almost another style, it seemed. It had a, it was a more popular movie, I think. It was, in those days, an art film, but more people saw it. It was a terrific movie.”