Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000344 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000344
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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326 CLOSE UP Nazare beach; Alfama, another documentary picture of great beauty, showing one of the most picturesque and ancient quarters of Lisbon* ; and A Severa, the big Portuguese sound film directed by Leitao de Barros. Antonio Leitao is finishing his second picture, O Milagre da Rainha, with Antonio Fagim, Lina Fontoura, Heloisa Clara and Gina Froes in the cast. Several important scenes were filmed in Coimbra. Campinos is the title of a new Portuguese talkie which should be completed by the time this issue appears. Antonio Luiz Lopes directing it with the assistance of his first cameraman Salazar Diniz. The cast includes Maria Helena, Maria Lalande, Gil Ferreira and T. de Sousa. The metteur en scene is acting also in the picture. Among the silent documentary records produced by the Ulyssea-Film, I must mention Uma Feira na Maia, a nice film composed in a good modern cinematographic manner by two amateur cineastes. This picture shows a big fair in Maia (near Oporto) with all its picturesqueness and strange quality. A. C. MOTION PICTURE NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA Karel Lamac, a Czech director who is very well known in foreign countries, has just founded in Prague together with Vlasta Burian a new producing society under the social firm, Burian-Lamac-Film. This company will produce three pictures in a year with Vlasta Burian in the title part and Karel Lamac as the director. As Burian is now under contract to the Elektafilm, the first picture of this new society will not be produced probably till in the next year. Lamac will soon go to Paris where he will direct the new talking picture of Anny Ondra, The Bat, adapted from the musical comedy of Johann Strauss. This picture will be produced in Czech, German, French and English. Then Lamac will return to Berlin to make there the screen version of The Fellowship of a Frog by Edgar Wallace. The Third Troop is the title of a new Czech war picture to be produced soon. The story is based upon a successful novel of the same name by Josef Kopta who has also written together with V. Wasserman the continuity. This picture will have no principal parts, its chief dramatic element being the solidarity and admirable comradeship of a collective of unknown heroes. It will be a talking picture but the dialogues will be reduced to 10 per cent, of the whole picture. Mr. J. Kabelik, representative * See Close Up, Vol. 8, No. 1.