Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000775 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000775
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP exemple, du combat de la sorciere et de I'enchanteur presentent des metamorphoses successives de formes tres bien realisees. Un reproche pourtant me semble devoir etre formule a I'egard de cette bande, ou plutot au mode de presentation . . . le metrage est trop long pour tenir en eveil Tattention du spectateur. Projete en deux fois, par exemple, ce film y gagnerait certainement. A examiner les physionomies des cinephiles presents, a la fin de la seance, j'ai constate que bon nombre d'entr'elles accusaient un peu de fatigue. Rien d'etonnant a cela, a vrai dire, etant donnee la composition du programme visionne. Les films d'interet purement visuel, dans lesquels la vie ne se manifeste que sous forme d'apparences souvent fort eloignees meme de la realite, et oil le mouvement est tres frequemment exagere, provoquent une tension nerveuse qui ne cesse de s'accentuer au fur et a mesure de la projection . . . II serait bon, je crois, d'administrer par petites doses poemes surrealistes et opuscules. — Freddy Chevalley. LE CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'lTALIE (Cine-Club de Geneve, 2 Mars 1929) Rene Clair ne s'est pas contente de traduire fidelement Labiche, il Ta transpose a Tecran, ou I'expression spirituelle du verbe est devenue image pleine et combien eloquente. Ce n'est au reste d'une reincarnation de la pensee dans le corps 91