Blow-Up, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

I seem to be doing so much whirling around there hasn’t been time for posting. Everything on my mind seems to be off topic. Here’s what I have:

Last night I watched this amusing movie: Blow-Up. It was new to me. It’s a 1966 classic. You probably have seen it! It’s a boring movie, but I couldn’t really put it down. I liked it a lot!

Warning: The Wikipedia page linked to above has a spoiler under PLOT.

I was curious to find out where the location was for the photographer’s studio and if it is still a studio. The page says, “The photographer’s studio was filmed at 49 Princes Place, London W11, which in the decades since has been office and studio space for architectural firms.” I would like to go there if I get to London.

For me, the best part of the move is the performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band! Priceless. Fortunately, the TCM host alerted us to this factoid before the movie started. I was really getting bored and then I heard Jeff Beck’s guitar before I remembered to be on the lookout for their cameos.

Also fun was trying to calculate how many times Thomas pressed the shutter button out in the park without changing film vs. the 36-frame neg strip he develops. Film Professor Jonathan Dawson wrote this review of the film and gave me a great post title!