A very British double feature. Well, a somewhat British double feature. Ok so like, half a British double feature anyways. The English make bad coffee (sorry, Charles). Double Feature Year 12 is the year of plots that don’t adequately summarize the film. Blowup has intrigue, murder most foul, and a simple plot. Photography, mimes, and controlling a narrative. Leaving Existentialism 101 to discuss murder. A man searching for a literal and metaphorical propeller. Control and powerlessness. Alice finally learns what Barry Lyndon is. The Kubrick photography. Narration. Not being sure if a film is comedy or not. The epic film, but without the typical arc or lessons. Reading situations wrong. Literal temporarily embarrassed millionaires, for a change. Intimate candlelight.
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Blowup
Released: September 26, 1967
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Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.
Barry Lyndon
Released: December 18, 1975
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
