Blow Out
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that… From TMDB
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60 of 159 · most liked firstgetting closer to end of the movie — for those not following along, i’m watching BLOW OUT — and this script is incredible. the whole thing moves inevitably and inexorably to its conclusion. there was always only one way the story could end, and it was with the perfect scream.
unlabelledView post →I was asked for Independence Day film recs beyond Jaws, Zodiac, Nashville, & Blow Out. I feel like right now, Do the Right Thing still has the most urgent & vital things to say about America, but my go-to is The Right Stuff, featuring Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the goddamn hero shot of all time.
unlabelledView post →Watching this De Palma movie Blow Out and at one point Nancy Allen explains to John Travolta how to contour
unlabelledView post →BLOW OUT is *the* Fourth of July movie.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Blow Out (81) - De Palma doing his best De Palmaring One Cut of the Dead (17) - A rather splendid surprise Deep Rising (98) - B movie at it's Best Alien Covenant (17) - The dumbest bunch of idiots get killed whilst doing dumb shit
unlabelledView post →Blow Out (1981) Directed by Brian De Palma
unlabelledView post →BLOW OUT was released 44 years ago this week. Despite rave reviews, it dropped without a trace until critical reappraisal started in the 90s. It is now thought by many as the definitive Brian De Palma film, here’s the incredible making of story… 1/28
unlabelledView post →Blow Out (1981) Directed by Brian De Palma
unlabelledView post →He did: Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Blow Out, and The Untouchables, a movie that needed like 90 percent less soundtrack.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Rolling Thunder, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Midnight Man, Blow Out. Also, Blue Collar, a 5-star movie
unlabelledView post →What's your favourite ever shot from a movie? I’ll start… this one from ‘Blow Out’ (1981) 🖤
unlabelledView post →New Yorker magazine film critic Pauline Kael called John Travolta and Nancy Allen "radiant" in this tale of an audio technician who accidentally records evidence of an assassination conspiracy. Director Brian De Palma proves himself a visionary. "Blow Out" (1981) #neonoir
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s: Blow Out 90s: Princess Mononoke 00s: The Fall 10s: Fury Road 20s: Love Lies Bleeding
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Brian De Palma Happy Birthday, 9/11/40, to filmmaker with great artistic highs & some entertaining lows. "My films deal with a stylized, expressionistic world that has a kind of grotesque beauty about it." 74 Phantom of the Paradise 76 Carrie 81 Blow Out 87 Untouchables #filmsky 🎥
unlabelledView post →Post your favorite movie that features fireworks 🎇 🧨 🎆 For me… ‘Blow Out’ (1981) 🖤
unlabelledView post →I'll start the New Year here in my page with a colorful fireworks scene from Blow Out (1981), a brilliant thriller film.
unlabelledView post →John Travolta and Nancy Allen doing promo for BLOW OUT that doesn't *quite capture the tone of the film.
unlabelledView post →Just remembering that a plot point in the movie “Blow Out” is that the bicentennial celebrations are so noisy and crowded that you can murder someone in the middle of them and no one will notice, and this time around it’s the same thing, but because it’s so empty.
unlabelledView post →The fireworks were great. I felt like John Travolta at the end of "Blow Out", which was the handwritten title on a VHS home movie I found at his estate documenting a private moment between the star and his full-body masseur.
unlabelledView post →New Yorker magazine film critic Pauline Kael called John Travolta and Nancy Allen "radiant" in this tale of an audio technician who accidentally records evidence of an assassination conspiracy. Director Brian De Palma proves himself a visionary. "Blow Out" (1981) #neonoir
unlabelledView post →Re: last repost, if you're looking for a feel-bad, anti-patriotic movie to counter-program this 4th of July, you can do much worse than Brian De Palma's BLOW OUT (1981).
unlabelledView post →Happy 45th anniversary to BLOW OUT. Here's the late, great Bryant Frazer's review of the Criterion Blu-ray. filmfreakcentral.net/2011/05/blow...
unlabelledView post →I think BLOW OUT is his best film. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, his most special. But *this* is my favorite DePalma movie. My parents took me to the theater to see it right before I turned 12 (God bless the 80s) and it changed things for me. One of those, you know? ...damn thing's *still* great, too.
unlabelledView post →Nothing but new ones for my #LastFourWatched this #LetterboxdFriday Blow Out was incredible and easily stole the show, Parsons needs full-reign, I like Paul Newman… and, I just couldn’t with Aaron (fun though). I swapped-in some other favorites, so they snuck in here too. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️
unlabelledView post →Good scream. Blow Out came out in 1981 but I think of it as the last film of the 70s. The baby boom generation takes one last look at their ideals and realizes they will never come to fruition.
unlabelledView post →Brian De Palma's movie for movie obsessives, BLOW OUT plays this Saturday at 9:15pm! Part of MUBI Fest Chicago Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
unlabelledView post →#nowwatching Blow Out because a. I love John Travolta and this is his best performance, b) it’s an underrated DePalma film, c) John Lithgow, Nancy Allen and Dennis Franz- come on!! If you haven’t seen it, it’s on Tubi.
unlabelledView post →without saying look who's talking now, fav john travolta film? 🎥 for me… ‘Blow Out’ (1981) 🖤
unlabelledView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #264 "Blow Out" (Brian De Palma/1981) During the golden age of slashers, De Palma dropped his fucking thriller masterpiece, Blow Out. Another damn near perfect film. You really need to check this one out!
unlabelledView post →In-between games, I've been trying to slide in a movie or two. Currently watching Blow Out (1981) by Brian DePalma. Funny seeing a B-Movie theater, an Arcade, a "Live Nude" show, and a McDonalds all right next to each other.
unlabelledView post →Images from films starring John Lithgow, BOTD in 1945 Blow Out (1981) The World According to Garp (1982) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
unlabelledView post →I love this post and all the replies. I add/echo: Clooney in OCEANS 11 Clooney OUT OF SIGHT Ford in TEMPLE OF DOOM Travolta in BLOW OUT Shue in ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING Zane in DEMON KNIGHT Silverstone in CLUELESS Willis in any DIE HARD movie and Rourke in 9 1/2 WEEKS because come the fuck on.
unlabelledView post →Blow Out is a perfect film I think.
unlabelledView post →On this day (28th September) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing Obsession (1976), Carrie (1976), Sisters (1972), Blow Out (1981) and Dressed To Kill (1980) as a Brian De Palma All-dayer.
unlabelledView post →i’m teaching my grad film seminar, Listening to Narrative, once again this semester & tomorrow we talk about our first two films, THE CONVERSATION & BLOW OUT. it was these movies in my first film theory class that made me want to write about film & sound & i’m excited to see what the students say!
unlabelledView post →This is the best 4th of July film scene you will watch today: “Blow Out”, dir. Brian de Palma (1981).
unlabelledView post →Blow Out (1981). The first De Palma film I saw. Probably in my top 25 faves of all time.
unlabelledView post →working on a thing—what are your favorite examples of characters (in film, in literature) in search of (the origin of) sound? eg The Conversation, Blow Out, Memoria, "The Tell-Tale Heart" cc @jdconnor.bsky.social @goblemark.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →What is your favorite Brian De Palma film? I have been on a De Palma kick this weekend watching Body Double, Blow Out and Dressed to Kill. I watched Mission Impossible and Snake Eyes endlessly when I was younger and become fascinated with his style. #film #filmsky
unlabelledView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 13/11 ~ Conspiracy in a movie 🎬 Blow Out (1981)
unlabelledView post →What movie villain is a horrible person, but an absolute joy to watch on screen? 😈 John Lithgow in Blow Out/Dexter
unlabelledView post →my favorite De Palma is THE UNTOUCHABLES yet I believe his best film is BLOW OUT, this happens to me *all the time*
unlabelledView post →PHYSICAL MEDIA BOOKLET ESSAY: THE PODCAST, a companion podcast miniseries to my new zine, Physical Media Booklet Essay! 9 eps chatting process w/the zine contributors ab their essay on the "film" they chose to write about. @michaelvarrati.bsky.social goes into a “Co-Frenzy” over De Palma’s BLOW OUT
unlabelledView post →I’d recommend going and watching Blow Out and then tell me if you still feel that way. He is terrifying in that movie and gives such a great unhinged performance.
unlabelledView post →A great film for each year of the 80s: 1980: The Blues Brothers 1981: Blow Out 1982: Conan - The Barbarian 1983: Videodrome 1984: Once Upon A Time In America 1985: Back To The Future 1986: Aliens 1987: Lethal Weapon 1988: Ariel 1989: Dr. Caligari
unlabelledView post →365 Days of Tunes - 62/365: Tex Avery’s THE BLOW OUT (’36), his third Looney Tune with Porky Pig, is a career-defining film for the director and its protagonist. This cartoon also introduced Tex’s full-body, exaggerated “takes” delivered by the mad bomber whenever Porky is on his heels.
unlabelledView post →My 10 Favourite Films, off the top of my head. (One per director) Alien Hellraiser Punch Drunk Love Cure Scream Black Christmas Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie The Conversation Blow Out Cache
unlabelledView post →Tonight's film Blow Out (1981)
unlabelledView post →One of my favorite celebrities I've met. He was really nice and at least seemed to care about what I had to say. We talked about my movie night group and he seemed curious if our recent viewings of Blow Up and Blow Out still held up (they mostly did, I actually really liked Blow Out).
unlabelledView post →Fave film for each year of the 1980s: 1980 - The Shining 1981 - Blow Out 1982 - Blade Runner 1983 - Videodrome 1984 - Amadeus 1985 - Legend 1986 - Blue Velvet 1987 - The Princess Bride 1988 - The Last Temptation of Christ 1989 - Do the Right Thing
unlabelledView post →Forty-five years ago a new film dropped with an incredible Pino Donaggio score (BLOW OUT), and today it’s happening again with HER PRIVATE HELL and I just think that’s beautiful.
unlabelledView post →Tonight's film is a revisit to De Palma's Blow Out (1981). Loved by critics but a box office dud on release it now has cult status. In my opinion it's one of De Palma's most satisfying and interesting films.
unlabelledView post →What a great list of movies! - A Place in The Sun was beautiful and sad. - Stagecoach surprised me and I loved it. - Synecdoche, New York was a very challenging film to watch. - Blow Out was excellent and I want to rewatch again! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
unlabelledView post →Saw Blow Out last night, which was like turning the channels between an absolutely brilliant conspiracy film & an incel’s wet-dream slasher movie, and was fascinated by the hours - HOURS - John Travolta’s character had to focus on his tasks. No phones, texts, emails - nothing but clarity of purpose.
unlabelledView post →538/—‘Blow Out’ #GangDoesGiallo Wonder if this was based on a Hollywood legend about a movie scream coming from an actual murder. Anywho, Travolta is a sound tech who witnesses a car crash into a stream and discovers sinister forces behind it; teams up with Allen again #Horror365Challenge #MutantFam
unlabelledView post →One could say I've been obsessed with Brian De Palma ever since I stumbled onto BLOW OUT on cable back when I was too young to fully understand what I was watching. Now I've come full circle by writing about his film OBSESSION, which turns 50 this week, for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social.
unlabelledView post →Blow Out because it's a movie about making movies and an exploration of political corruption. Also because it takes place in Philadelphia and showcases John Travolta at his finest.
unlabelledView post →Listen up, film fans! Brian De Palma's thriller BLOW OUT starring John Travolta plays this Saturday at 9:15pm Part of MUBI Fest Chicago One Show Only - Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
unlabelledView post →German film poster for BLOW OUT (1981 - Dir. Brian De Palma) Cast: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
unlabelledView post →#LastFourWatched 📽️ I need to go write a better review for second watch of Blow Out, I was too tired last night. The most De Palma film ever
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