Blow Out Review
Blow Out is Brian DePalma's glossy send-up of Michelangelo_Antonioni's 1960s art-house classic Blow-Up. In Blow-Up, a London fashion photographer unwittingly shoots footage of a murder plot; in Blow Out, a movie sound technician records a killing that's part of a wide-ranging political conspiracy. The intricate plot is typical of DePalma and has unmistakable parallels with Francis_Ford_Coppola's The_Conversation (1974), also a version of Blow-Up. The cast includes John_Travolta in his first serious major role, as well as DePalma favorites John_Lithgow and Nancy_Allen, in her last memorable part. Blow Out has all of DePalma's flashy camera techniques but keeps the director's customary gratuitous violence under some control. Most critics thought it was one of his most successful and intriguing films, though it didn't do well at the box office. Michael Betzold, Rovi
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