☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Blow Out (1981) -- B. DePalma
On its own terms, as a
B-movie with "aspirations", Blow Out is pretty great. DePalma nods (or winks) at both Antonioni and
Hitchcock, probably rips off Coppola's The Conversation, and even steals the
feel of the ending of Chinatown. Young
John Travolta is a sulky sound man who accidentally records a possible
gubernatorial assassination and then spends the rest of the film trying to
convince people. Nancy Allen is a dopey
pawn/love interest/victim and John Lithgow brings the evil. There are tracking shots up the wazoo. Good
for popcorn munching.
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