Name: CINEMA ‘76: BLOW OUT
Start: 2026-05-14T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-14T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 6 River Terrace

CINEMA ‘76:  BLOW OUT

Battery Park City Authority

Cinema ‘76 films feature stories set in 1976 followed by a post-screening discussion exploring each film’s themes and cultural context.

6 River Terrace

Cinema '76

Cinema ‘76 films feature stories set in 1976 followed by a post-screening discussion exploring each film’s themes and cultural context

In Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981), a movie sound recordist accidentally captures audio evidence of a political assassination, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens his life. Set during the Bicentennial, this tense thriller explores paranoia, media manipulation, and the high cost of pursuing the truth.In The New Yorker, Pauline Kael said, "You don’t see set pieces in Blow Out—it flows, and everything that happens seems to go right to your head. It’s hallucinatory, and it has a dreamlike clarity and inevitability, but you’ll never make the mistake of thinking that it’s only a dream... I think De Palma has sprung to the place that Altman achieved with films such as McCabe &amp; Mrs. Miller and Nashville and that Coppola reached with the two Godfather movies—that is, to the place where genre is transcended and what we’re moved by is an artist’s vision."John Travola gives a stunning performance as the sound recordist, with Kael noting: "Travolta, who appeared to have lost his way after Saturday Night Fever, makes his own leap—right back to the top, where he belongs. Playing an adult (his first), and an intelligent one, he has a vibrating physical sensitivity like that of the very young Brando."Watch the trailer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDve1A5EAvk" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDve1A5EAvk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a>

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