Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blowup,” just out on DVD, is a touchstone of 1960’s cinema culture. Released in 1966 to critical and popular acclaim, the enigmatic movie follows a cynical photographer (David Hemmings) as he moves among the pampered rich and the heedless young of swinging London. When he shoots a series of pictures of a tryst between Vanessa Redgrave and her lover in the park, he finds that he may have photographed a murder. The Times asked two film critics of different generations, Stuart Klawans, of The Nation, and his younger colleague Nathan Lee, of The New York Sun, to discuss the movie then and now.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/12/movies/12ALGI.html
Bingham Ray, leading indie film promoter, resigns
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/business/09film.html?pagewanted=print&position=
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