DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
BLOW-UP
June 21, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 12:00 a.m. ET

 

Tonight’s TCM schedule is a salute to the swinging Sixties, and begins with two very appropriately upbeat character comedies. In the first, shown at 8 p.m. ET, Peter Sellers stars in 1968’s I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, playing an uptight businessman who loosens up after sampling sex, drugs and rock & roll. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, it’s Lynn Redgrave in 1966’s Georgy Girl, playing a sort of Bridget Jones type who effortlessly personifies the decade she’s in. But stay up until midnight ET, for the much darker, much more influential 1966 Michelangelo Antonio film Blow-Up, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who accidentally films proof of a murder. It’s a very stylish movie, in more ways than one. Vanessa Redgrave co-stars, along with a model named Verushka (seen here with Hemmings), who plays herself – and fills out her role nicely.

 
 
 
 
 
Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)
 
 Name (required)
 
 Email (required) (will not be published)
 
KQNSS
Type in the verification word shown on the image.