Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000206 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 #:
000206
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 Pabst, Wiene and Curtiz are numbered among the notable directors of her European pictures, among which will be 'remembered Red Hills, Coach iVo. 13, The Road to Happiness, The Queen Was in the Parlor, Butterfly on the Wheel, The Adventuress, as well as others no less noteworthy. Her first role in an American film will be that of Mrs. Travers in the screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Rescue, to be directed by Herbert Brenon. Ronald Colman is cast as the star, in the character of Tom Lingard, while Theodore von Eltz will play the part of Carter. Others in the cast are Bernard Siegel, Duke Kahanamoku, the champion Hawaiian swimmer, and the distinguished Japanese actor, Sojin. ^ =^ HoUywood's present vogue of catering to international interest by employing foreign actors and directors in many of its leading productions is further strikingly exemplified by Goldwyn's forthcoming picture, The Aivakening. Heading the cast are Vilma Banky, the Hungarian star, and Walter Byron, a former officer of the British Royal Fusiliers. The storv is laid in Alsace-Lorraine. A troop of German Uhlans plays a prominent part in it: and with one exception (Capt. Richard Murphy, of the 2nd Field Artillery, United States Army), the principal characters of this troop are impersonated by foreign armv ofticers. Six of them are former German Uhlans themselves, and the others include military representatives of England, Australia, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Russia. The Russian is General Wiatsheslav Savitsky, who for eighteen years was a member of the personal bodyguard of the late Czar. During the War he commanded a 52