UW Cinematheque: Brian De Palma Thrills Us!
Blow Out | USA | 1981 | DCP | 107 min. Director: Brian De Palma
Event Details
Date
Friday, August 26, 2016
Time
9 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
Travolta plays a sound-effects man with proof that a politician’s death was the result of a labyrinthine blackmail plot. De Palma’s mix of Antonioni, Hitchcock and the Zapruder film has been cited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his biggest cinematic inspirations. “It’s hallucinatory, and it has a dreamlike clarity and inevitability, but you’ll never make the mistake of thinking it’s only a dream. It’s a great movie” (Pauline Kael).
Travolta plays a sound-effects man with proof that a politician’s death was the result of a labyrinthine blackmail plot. De Palma’s mix of Antonioni, Hitchcock and the Zapruder film has been cited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his biggest cinematic inspirations. “It’s hallucinatory, and it has a dreamlike clarity and inevitability, but you’ll never make the mistake of thinking it’s only a dream. It’s a great movie” (Pauline Kael).
Cost
Free
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