Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

Page scan 000149 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Nov 1927
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000149
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
As an active film magazine, CLOSE UP lasted only a short time, from 1927 to 1933. Yet the legacy of this English-language periodical, which was published in Switzerland, continues to matter. Edited by Bryher and her husband Kenneth Macpherson, CLOSE UP became THE magazine for energetic debates about the nature of cinema and manifestos imagining new forms of filmmaking and spectatorship. The magazine published articles by filmmakers, such as Sergei Eisenstein, and female literary modernists, such as H.D. and Gertrude Stein. As film scholar Anne Friedberg explains in the anthology CLOSE-UP, 1927-1933: CINEMA & MODERNISM, 'CLOSE UP became the model for a certain type of writing about film -- writing that was theoretically astute, politically incisive, critical of films that were simply 'entertainment.' For six and a half years, CLOSE UP maintained a forum for a broad variety of ideas about the cinema; it never advocated a single direction of development, but rather posed alternatives to existing modes of production, consumption, and film style.' Like Friedberg's own writing, CLOSE UP continues to be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film and media theory. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP A UFA FILM KOPF HOCH CHARLEY (Bigamie) Billed as the 1927-1928 Ufa super-production, this is on no account to be missed. Its integrity is a real achievement, and sincerest congratulations are to be tendered to its makers, and sincerest homage to be paid to Ellen Richter, its star. Here indeed is a film two thirds of which at least are flawless, and that is roughly two thirds better than any average possible production. The opening shows us the departure of a steamship from Cuxhaven for New York, and the farewell words of a wife whose husband is travelling to America to try and borrow money. One is instantly struck with the magnificent treatment of the crowds, the hot faces in quest of information, the shouldering, the sort of stricken, insectiverous running about of people sailing on a long voyage ; the half exalted, half stupified helplessness of the friends and relatives seeing them off. "Don't go", the wife implores. "Something tells me w^e will never meet again." . . . Rush and serry of crowds, sirens, lifting of gangways, waving. The wife's arm waves mechanically, her face taut and despairing among the waving and the faces. Crowds surge past her on both sides, she steps with them, but more slowly, and the camera with her. Presently she is alone. An official passes, she must leave the 65