"I revisited Blow-Up in a shot-by-shot analysis. Freed from the hype and fashion, it emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time. This was at the 1998 Virginia Festival of American Film in Charlottesville, which had "Cool" as its theme. The festival began with the emergence of the Beat Generation and advanced through Cassavetes to Blow-Up — after which the virus of Cool leaped from its nurturing subculture into millions of willing new hosts, and has colored our society ever since, right down to and manifestly including South Park."
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Roger Ebert in a review of Blow-Up (8 November 1998)
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Blow-Up
Blow-Up (or Blowup) is a 1966 film about a British photographer's accidental involvement with a mysterious death. It was inspired by the short story, "Las babas del diablo" ["The Devil's Drool"] (1959) by Julio Cortázar, translated also as "Blow-Up", and by the life of photographer David Bailey.
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