Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Page scan 000439 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000439
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 lass. ^He ahvavs was too slow about this sort of thino to make a success of it I) The plot calls for. further demonstrations. Searchingthrough his wife's clothes he discovers a letter from Gary calling on Esther to break the news to her husband that one of the boys is illegitimate. Gary, it appears, wanted to take his own son to Vienna and give him the chance to get a fur coat I Imagine how that gives Jannings a fresh start for mouth and eye acrobatics I Yes, we did not tell you that this picture is called Betrayal we thought that might spoil vour surprise ! Off to the hospital where Gary is dying. A nurse makes no effort to stop the ensuing scene, the excitement of which precipitates the patient's end. However, she wears a quaint pointed cap which lends interest to the composition. You see this is a Jannings picture, an art picture, the sort of thing The Film Arts Guild has been advocating ; the story may be a little silly but the ART creeps into the background, into the angles and all the rest. The Film Arts Guild went to such a lot of trouble to snap up the story of Joyless Street because they discovered so much ART in the unusual settings of w^ar-shattered Vienna ! The reader can guess the rest of the story of Betrayal; how Jannings nearly hurls a child from the top of a studio mountain, and how the love of a trusting innocent, etc. January, 1930, VN-ill see the general release of a Russian picture, Lvan the Terrible, which contains some high pressure records ; all forms of torture are photographed richly amidst beautiful fabrics. The art is in the background, without