AS PART OF WEEKLY "BRANCH SELECTS" SERIES - DE PALMA'S FILM SELECTED BY THE SOUND BRANCH
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Brian De Palma's Blow Out will screen at 7:30pm on Wednesday, May 1, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles (in the David Geffen Theater). The screening is part of a weekly "Branch Selects" series:
Branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences represent distinct disciplines of moviemaking. Working with members of the Academy branches, the Academy Museum presents a weekly series that offers a one-of-a-kind journey through film history. Working alphabetically through all 18 branches of the Academy, each week a different branch selects a film that represents a major achievement in the evolution of moviemaking and its unique disciplines.
The Sound Branch has selected Blow Out:
Brian De Palma wrote and directed this mystery about a movie sound technician (John Travolta) who inadvertently records the assassination of a politician. Stylish and unexpectedly emotional, Blow Out has become one of De Palma’s most acclaimed films over the last four decades, and his script cleverly incorporates filmmaking techniques into its storyline. In collaboration with sound mixer Dick Vorisek and sound editor Dan Sable, as well as such De Palma regulars as cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, film editor Paul Hirsch, and composer Pino Donaggio, the director creates a worthy successor to the great conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s.