Join us here at the library for live, real-time, in-house audio description for screenings of exciting Hollywood blockbusters, curated with an eye toward promoting discussions on topics that matter. Discussion to follow Screening.

Blowup / Premier Productions Co., Inc. presents a Carlo Ponti production ; story by Michaelangelo Antonioni; screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra; English dialogue in collaboration with Edward Bond; produced by Carlo Ponti; directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni.

A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.

“In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.”

Community Room

Time: 1 — 4 PM

Free!