Blow Out

Introduction by J. Hoberman on August 23

One of Brian De Palma’s greatest films and one of the great American films of the 1980s, Blow Out finds De Palma mixing a variety of elements—the Kennedy assassination; Chappaquiddick; Antonioni’s Blow-Up; the slasher genre that was then in full flower; elements of Detective Bob Leuci’s experiences working undercover for the Knapp Commission; the harshness and sadness of American life; and, as ever, Hitchcock’s Vertigo—into a hallucinatory thriller that builds to a shattering conclusion. With John Travolta, in perhaps his greatest performance, as a low-budget horror movie sound man who accidentally records a murder, and Nancy Allen, absolutely heartbreaking as the girl caught in the middle.

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