Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000207 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 #:
000207
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 cavalry division against the Germans, and now by a bizarre quirk of fate he appears in the role of an Uhlan officer. * H. B. Warner, the English actor, who has only recently been afforded an opportunity to display in full measure his splendid talents and versatility, through the medium of The King of Kings and Sorrell and Soji, is scheduled to play a leading role in Warner Brothers vitaphone production, The Candle of the Wind. Monte Blue will share stellar honors with him, and Michael Curtiz will direct the picture. A novel feature of the story is its antarctic locale ; but that which will undoubtedly most appeal to admirers of Warner is the opportunity offered by the film to hear his voice on the screen. Following this he will be starred in two pictures to be produced bv a newly-formed Hollywood company, the Quality Corporation. The tentative titles of the pictures are Drink and The Romance of a Rogue, ^ ^ ^ A celluloid version of Poe's morbid story. The Tell-Tale Heart, is Hollywood's latest contribution to the collectanea of art films. It had its initial showing at the Filmarte Theatre, and received instant recognition as an opus of unusual character and craftsmanship — perhaps the most finished production of its kind that has yet come out of the Hollywood proper. The psychology of the story — the effect upon the madman of the beating of his victim's heart — presents a distinctly difficult problem for film translation ; yet at the hand of Charles F. Klein, the translator and the creator of the picture. 53