BLOW-UP—Film Screening

Join us for an immersive cinematic experience as we present a screening of BLOW-UP at the esteemed Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, California. Presented in DOLBY 7.1 Surround Sound. Rated R.

Event Description

This screening is part of the series of immersive film screenings by the Cultural Center’s Hi-Desert Film Institute at the Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, CA.  Doors (and bar) open at 3:30pm with a brief film discussion at 3:45pm, which is followed by the screening at 4pm. The screening is Saturday, March 15, 2025.  This film is rated R for partial nudity and adult situations.

Summary: During the swinging 1960s, a London photographer believes he inadvertently photographed evidence of a murder only to have the evidence mysteriously disappear. Professional photographer Thomas saw nothing. And he saw everything. Enlargements of pictures he secretly took of a romantic couple in the park reveal a murder in progress. Or do they?

Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up is an influential, stylish study of paranoid intrigue and disorientation. It is also a time capsule of mod London, a mindscape of the era’s fashions, free love, parties, music (Herbie Hancock wrote the score and The Yardbirds riff at a club) and hip languor. David Hemmings plays the jaded photographer enlivened by the mystery in his photos. Vanessa Redgrave is the elusive woman pictured in them. And the enigma of what you see, what you don’t see, and what the camera sees, is yours to solve.

Critical Accliam: Winner of 1966 Best Picture and Best Director Awards from the then-new National Society of Film Critics (as well as Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay),