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July 2023

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration

    Peter Bradshaw
    Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda

July 2021

  • CLAIRE PEPLOE<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Camilla Morandi/REX/Shutterstock (329121b)
CLAIRE PEPLOE

    Clare Peploe obituary

    Screenwriter and film-maker best known for Couples and Robbers, Besieged and La Luna

March 2017

  • A scene from Blow-Up (1966) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

    From the Guardian archive
    'Debauchery all night': the Guardian's original review of Blow-Up

  • David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in Blow-Up

    Freedom, revolt and pubic hair: why Antonioni’s Blow-Up thrills 50 years on

April 2016

  • David Hemmings in Michelangelos Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up

    Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s

    It’s 50 years since Time declared London ‘swinging’ and foreign film-makers flocked to the capital to tells its stories. From A Hard Day’s Night to Blow-Up, the era-defining movies rolled out. But beneath the glam, paranoia, madness and violence were never far away

February 2016

  • Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best fashion films

    As Derek Zoolander returns to strut his stuff, we look at cinema’s greatest fashionistas

October 2015

  • David Hemmings in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up.

    Cinema now
    Mike Leigh interview: ‘Blow-Up? It’s a pile of pretentious crap’

    The British director recalls childhood cinema magic… and an aversion to Antonioni

June 2015

  • bridesmaids

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best tennis moments in culture

    Last week we brought you our 10 best tennis moments in culture. Here, we present your thoughts on the moments that should have made the list

November 2011

  • Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up tells the story of a photographer who witnesses a murder.

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Blow-Up

    In our writers' favourite film series, Jon Dennis plays it cool with a chilling Michelangelo Antonioni tale set in swinging 60s London

June 2005

  • 'Trust me. I am not God, but I am Antonioni'

    A young, bearded Peter Bowles wasn't prepared for Michelangelo Antonioni's rigorous approach to film-making when he landed a part in Blow-Up. But he soon realised he was in the presence of a great man.

April 2004

  • Blow-Up restoration heads Cannes classics

    A restored print of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 thriller Blow-Up is to be the centrepiece of the inaugural Classic Cinema section at this year's Cannes film festival.

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