Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Oct 1920 - Aug 1923
Volume:
Close-Up (1920-1923)
Leaf #:
000265
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Switzerland, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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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3 NIGHT LIFE IN L. A. (By “The Rounder”) LOEW’S STATE— “T h o r n s and Orange Blossoms” is reviewed elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Billy Shoup is smiling at the splendid attendance record made at this theatre. ORPHEUM — Mr. Perry has been very excited the last two weeks because he has been the receiver of “zee grande rush!” The Duncan Sisters are the knockouts of the season. Vera Gordon ,a great “mother role” player of the screen, takes the honors for the dramatic work. The rest o the bill is usually good, and it is this week. HILLSTREET — “The Young Diana,” a Cosmopolitan picture, featuring Marion Davies, is the film for this week. It is one of those secondclass productions put out to fool the public into believing that it is first class. The acts this week are headed by Lew Brice, who is very funny and a very good dancer. The rest of the show idles an hour or so away for you. MOROSCO — “We Girls” is a little bit of “Flaming Youth” in mother, who does sort of a Peter Pan act. See it by all means. MAJESTIC — Holbrook Blinn in “The Bad Man,” by Porter Emerson Browne, is very good. In fact, Mr. Blinn is the baddest man we’ve seen in any bad-man parts for bad men. METROPOLITAN — Betty Compson QjhsuL/ An Appreciation si) pen all nijht No Dish Over 50c A sincere desire to express our warm appreciation of the almost overwhelming reception given the opening of John Tait’s Coffee Shop prompts us to write this editorial We can only repeat our opening pledge that uppermost in the minds of the directing forces of this institution will be the offering of “good things to eat at little prices.” — We do not expect you to be satisfied with price alone. — We do not expect you to be satisfied with quality alone. — We do not expect you to be satisfied with service alone. — But we pledge you and expect you to demand uncompromising satisfaction in all three. 518 S. BROADWAY