Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000415 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 #:
000415
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 Lya de Putti, who had her introduction to American audiences in Jannings' Variety, plays the stellar role in a recent Columbia film, The Scarlet Lady. Appearing with her in the picture is Theodore Lodi, the adopted professional name of Theodore Lodijensky, a former general in the Czar's Cossack army. Following the revolution he escaped to America, and recently conducted an exclusive Hollywood cafe, The Russian Eagle, a picturesque gathering place for the elite of the picture colony. A short while ago the place was destroyed by fire and explosion, and the popular Lodijensky was thereupon induced to enter the ranks of filmdom. * * * John Barrymore will appear in a phonofilm directed by Ernest Lubitsch for United Artists. The photodrama, adapted by Hans Kraly from the popular European novel, Der Konig der Bernina," by Jacob Christoph Heer, is laid in Switzerland during the early part of the last century. * * * The midwinter scenes in The River, Frank Borzage's latest picture for Fox, were taken in midsummer in Southern California. A twenty-five acre location containing a construction camp, with a background of forest and mountain, was converted into a realistic winter setting by the use of ingeniously manufactured snow and ice. * * * Sins of the Fathers is Emil Jannings' latest Paramount picture, a phonofilm, directed by Ludwig Berger. 61