Thanks to Daryl for emailing me about a new Vanessa Redgrave interview where she discusses making the 1966 Antonioni film BLOW-UP in considerable detail - the interview is 42 minutes - for when you have the time.
As the You/Tube text states:
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Antonioni's iconic film
Blow-Up, the team behind Fashion & Cinema - a series of events, on-stage
conversations and screenings exploring the relationship between fashion and
cinema - bring together legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave CBE and photography
expert and Deputy Chairman of Christie's Philippe Garner, co-author of the book
Antonioni's Blow-Up. The film shaped understandings of contemporary fashion
photography and shocked with its portrait of London
in the swinging sixties, casual sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Director Antonioni
consulted local journalists to help build a picture of the lifestyle of the
most fashionable young photographers. David Hemmings's character is a composite
of elements that reference David Bailey, Terence Donovan, David Montgomery and
John Cowan, whose studio became a principal set.
(Terence Stamp still insists it was all about him and he had been promised the part by the Italian maestro. I have the Garner coffee-table book on the film, which covers it all, with those great images we like so much)..
(Terence Stamp still insists it was all about him and he had been promised the part by the Italian maestro. I have the Garner coffee-table book on the film, which covers it all, with those great images we like so much)..
Vanessa is now on stage here in London in the Ralph Fiennes RICHARD III, being broadcast to cinemas on July 21, we shall be watching. I saw her on stage twice, in a 1973 stylish production of Coward's DESIGN FOR LIVING, and sometime in the '80s in Martin (BENT) Sherman's odd A MADHOUSE IN GOA, Vanessa always mesmerises on stage.
Another fascinating 1960s interview with Vanessa here:
Perhaps now BLOW UP will get that long overdue bluray release. I saw Vanessa on stage only once in THE ASPERN PAPERS with Christopher Reeve and Wendy Hiller, (you will know the movie, THE LOST MOMENT). It wasn't much of a play but it was well acted.
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