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Close-Up is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time; in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, it was voted by critics one of "The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list. In the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll it was rated the 17th greatest film of all time.
- Full Metal Jacket. The first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is famously dedicated to the training that the soldiers receive from the abusive Sergeant Hartman.
- The Revenant. A year after the massive success of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu released The Revenant, a film with an equal, if not bigger, amount of cinematic ambition and audacity.
- The Godfather. The first two entries of the Godfather Trilogy are masterworks of the cinematic art, and are built around some of the strongest performances ever delivered to the big screen.
- Sunset Boulevard. When it comes to close-ups, many iconic shots come to mind, as well as a particular line about this film technique, and that line is of course “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille”, spoken by Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson).
Apr 20, 2022 · Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well ...
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It’s in a 1912 film called Friends starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Henry Walthall. It has an ambiguous ending. Pickford is torn between two men but ends up with one of them, and then the close-up happens in the very last shot. About 11 minutes in, Griffith’s camera is on a loose full-length shot of Pickford.
May 29, 2021 · Close Up (1990) - With English Subtitles - YouTube. 94K views 2 years ago. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event; The arrest of a young man on charges that he...
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Oct 30, 1991 · Close-Up: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. With Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi. The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Jul 25, 2015 · With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world. Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work.
