Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000777 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 #:
000777
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 malencontreuse dans le dos de la mariee, les souliers neufs atrocement blessants, le gant disparu, donnent lieu a d'incessants rappels comiques, volontairement appuyes. C'est precisement le merite de Rene Clair d'avoir obtenu avec une matiere en somme tres peu cinegraphique, une bande de reel interet. Eludant tout ce qui, de pres ou de loin, rappelle le theatre, sans infirmer pour autant la qualite spirituelle des diverses scenes ni interpoler d'invraisemblables passages Clair a etabli le trait-d' union possible entre la scene et I'ecran, realisant du meme coup un film essentiellement fran^ais au rythme nerveux et souple. Freddy Chevalley. HOLLYWOOD NOTES Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are preparing a joint production of The Taming of the Shrew, Fairbanks as Petruchio is readily imaginable ; but the petite Mary, so long associated with juvenile roles, is not so easily pictured as the shrewish Katharina. However, her sophisticated characterization in Coquette has revealed a hitherto unknown Mary and proven her capacity for more mature and exacting roles. •X * * Color photography, which is now being generally adopted by all the studios, is calling for a new art of make-up. Experience has shown that the make-up used for panchromatic film is not suitable for color film. Orange is now the 93