Blow-Up
Monday 14 April 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
On Night Waves another chance to hear a programme devoted to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic sixties film Blow Up. The film caused a major stir on its release with its mix of hip mid-Sixties Swinging London and a strange, ambiguous plot. But how does its meditation on truth and illusion in the visual image resonate now in a culture that is even more saturated with imagery than 40 years ago?
Philip is joined by guests including writer Iain Sinclair, photographer Eamonn McCabe and film director Michael Radford.
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Night Waves: Landmarks, another chance to hear a programme devoted to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic sixties film Blow Up.
Philip Dodd is joined by the writer Iain Sinclair, the photographer Eamonn McCabe, the critic Muriel Zagha and the film-maker Michael Radford to discuss Antonioni's English language masterpiece and its unsettling new vision of London. Iain Sinclair explains how he hunted out the obscure, sinister park where the central scenes of the film were shot - and found the remaining flecks of the green paint with which Antonioni had had the park's colour scheme touched up. Eamonn McCabe reveals how, along with many other photographers, the film made a major impression on him as a novice photographer. Michael Radford traces the film's influence on directors from Wim Wenders to Wong Kar Wai.
