An academic point to be sure, but an important one. On every print I have seen, the title of this film is actually "BLOWUP" [all in capital letters], not "BLOW-UP" or "Blow-Up" with a hyphen. This may seem like a minor point, but virtually everywhere the film is made reference to it is spelled incorrectly. I would contend that the film is ultimately about things disappearing, distinctions being erased; the "haziness" of modern art and modern sensibility, in which objects and people disappear into dots and atoms and abstraction. In this context, that missing hyphen is a key signifier! ---------------------------------------------- "Only Connect." E. M. Forster ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]