Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000389
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early 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:
November 07, 2023
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CLOSE UP 365 A CINEMA ARTS FILM CLUB A Cinema Arts Film Club has been formed at the Forum Cinema, Villiers Street, W.C.2. There are various classes of membership ranging from one to four guineas ; associate and country members, ten shillings and sixpence. Arrangements are being made for the following amenities for Members. A Library of books dealing with the art of the film will be available. Exhibitions will be organised from time to time, and lecturers engaged to talk about them. Details will be forwarded to members in good time. A refreshment lounge for members and their friends. Moderate prices. Writing and smoking room, where members can meet for discussion or to transact business. Only the worthwhile British and Continental films will be shown, a proposed list of which is appended here. We invite suggestions for other films from students, as films of all nations will figure in our programmes. In most cases, the new films (first showing in England) will be given seven days' run for the convenience of provincial and other members. All performances will be open to members and friends of members. Associate members will also enjoy full privileges of the Club, only these will have to pay for admission to the film performances. For comfort and efficiency, membership will be limited to available accommodation, therefore all are requested to make early application. Futures include, we hope (booking are not confirmed on some of these) : The End of St. Petersburgh, The House of Death (first time in England), Westfront 1914, Kameradschaft, Battle Cruiser Potemkin, White Hell of Pitz Palu, Flesh and the Devil, The Informer (a Robinson prod.), The Scarlet Letter, The Windjammer, The Immortal Vagabond, Avalanche, Men Like These, The Last Company , White Shadows in the South Seas, The Homecoming, Loves Awakening (Mastersingers of Nurenberg), Student of Prague, Forgotten Faces, The Prince of Adventurers (with Mosjoukine), The Iron Mask, The Circus, Waxworks, Gosta Berling, The Crazy Ray (Clair), The Last Laugh, A Cottage on Dartmoor, Two Worlds, Homecoming, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Life Begins, An American Tragedy, Thou Shalt Not, The Spy, Nanook of the North, The Three Loves, A Daughter of Destiny , The Gold Rush, The Hands of Orlac. And many silent films first time in England, such as a beautiful French film dealing with the life of Chopin, which will probably be the first to be given a seven day run very shortly. Josie Lederer. PARIS MARGIN NOTE Paris is stripped of its young cineastes : they can no longer afford to sit around the Dome tables, dropping culture pearls of wisdom from their mouths. So, we were quite relieved to learn that Dreyer's Vampire was being passed at one of the salles, as we knew our kino experience in the new Paris would be limited. We snatched a quick drink with Richard Thoma (toasting better poems and worse trees) , and clattered across empty Paris in an expensive taxi. Arrived at the cinema, we found that Vampire had been withdrawn a week