ON Friday, March 3, as part of Borderlines Film Festival, there will be a rare opportunity to see Antonioni’s Blow-Up, the Italian film-maker’s seminal 1960s movie presented by Peter Burden.

In March 1967, Michelangelo Antonioni’s newest film, Blow-Up, a vision of London in the mid-60s, received its world premiere in London and, just two months later, went on to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes and pick up two Oscar nominations.

The screening is presented by Peter Burden, the ghost writer of the star of Blow-Up, David Hemmings’ autobiography, and will both introduce the film and hold a Q&A session afterwards.

"Hemmings was a popular, multi-talented, generous-spirited and funny man," says the Ludlow-based author, who worked with him on the book for three months before Hemmings died filming in Romania in 2003. “I had a wonderful time working on David Hemmings’ extraordinarily full account of his life and experiences. We sat together for many months, trying to separate fact from fantasy. We couldn’t always see the joins, but he seldom failed to find the humour in all the crazy circumstances in which he often found himself during a long and busy career.”

Copies of David Hemmings’ autobiography – Blow Up and Other Exaggerations:: Part One: From Childhood to Charge will be on sale before and after the screening, published in a new 50th anniversary paperback edition by Wigmore Books.

The screening on Friday, March 3 at 4.30pm is sponsored by 55 Mill Street. To book, call the box office on 01584 878141 or visit ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk