Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

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CLOSE UP can show what one means, I can see what it all amounts to^ we have great power behind us, something more than ordinary power. I am settled in, I am getting things, I am seeing things, I am not seeing Lya de Putti, I am not seeing Greta Garbo, they are less real than the boy tearing my ticket, than the girl with this way please, the beckoning torch, the splodges,, the faces behind me, less real, but aeroplanes and people should give the impression, should create the illusion, there are ways and means, and here is efficient camera work but it doesn't grip, it doesn't grip. Kenneth Macpherson. COMMENT AND REVIEW Le film dort dans sa boite metallique, rephe mille fois sur lui meme, substance inerte, mysterieuse. On ne salt de lui pas grand, chose, car on n'en parte encore que sur les affiches, Superproduction... est le terme qu'on lui apphque, par defaut de simphcite. II y a le titre en tongues lettres demesurees, qui eveille la curiosite, fait naitre le desir. Ce titre caresse les sens du public comme un parfum troublant. Des eloges pompeux dans les colonnes des journaux, ou Ton effieure la trame 63