Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000103 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000103
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:
July 25, 2024
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CLOSE UP of good films, and he seemed to know what a good film is. And also what a film is not, a photographed play, like The Vortex to use his own instance, with the story told by the subtitles and the actors suiting the action to the w^ords. He is against talking films, too. In fact, there is quite a lot of hope about the Avenue Pavilion, a popular cinema in the heart of London, where one should soon be able to be sure there will be something on worth seeing. It deserves support, and the more continuous support it gets, the better movies it will be able to show. We hope it may flourish as it has begun, and that the censor wil) even see that are a number of people in England who take their films seriously, and that their needs are served by a young manager doing his best, despite foolish rules. Copies of Kean and of W^^'^i'^g Shadows have been found, but they are in such bad condition, that it is doubtful if they can be shown. Other films it is proposed to show are Stroheim's Greed and Merry Widow, The Birth of a Nation, Trilhy, The Marriage Circle and also Lady Windermere's Fan of Lubitsch, / Will Repay with Asta Nielsen, The Student of Prague, The Marriage of the Bear and if possible Voyage au Congo. Not all these are of equal merit, but they accord with Mr. Ogilvie's policy of showing only films that would not be seen elsewhere. At present, the second features are the general releases ; these afford an opportunity of contrast, but it is planned to replace these in time with old comics and with travel and ''interest" films. It would be trite to say that Mr, Ogilvie is doing good. One 67