BEST CLOSE-UPS IN FILMS

Hi there!

Hope you can check out my choices for some of the BEST CLOSE-UPS IN FILMS:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=99494&id=741676205&l=00e28

Thanks! :)

Faces!

Why don’t we just say The Passion of Joan of Arc and close the book …

There’s a lot of close-ups in Dreyer’s Joan of Arc…love those too! Thanks for the suggestion :)

@IZA – I’m curious about your picks. Unfortunately, I ain’t got no Facebook access.

Once Upon a Time in the West!

I love the close-ups of Anna Karina in Pierrot le Fou (ex: http://filmbrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/pierrot_le_fou_comparison.jpg)

Also, I love love love the one for the Riviera that is used as the image on the Auteurs, and – though the OP said them – every single close-up from Repulsion.

Hi there Noel!

Yes. There’s a lot of close-ups in Sergio Leone’s films…I especially loved Marianne Koch’s in “A Fistfull of Dollars” :)

You can check out my Facebook photo album, even if you don’t have a Facebook. It’s a public link :)

Hi there JP Belmondo!

Yes. I agree, there’s a lot of good close-ups of Deneuve in Polanski’s “REPULSION”, I posted two close-ups from that film.

Godard loved to film Anna Karina in a close-up shot, I espcially love her close-up in “VIVRE SA VIE” spoilers ahead (when she’s watching Dreyer’s “Joan of Arc”)…and the one in “ALPHAVILLE”.

I just want to vote twice for JOAN. With the exception of a very few shots, the film is almost entirely composed of close-ups, like never before in film, and like never since.

…the opening scenes in “Elevator to the Gallows” and “Clockwork Orange”

Chungking Express

I just rewatched INLAND EMPIRE and was bowled over by how much of the movie is based in wide-angle, extreme close-ups of people’s faces, either when they appear possessed or confused and unsettled. Watching it this time on the smallscreen of my laptop, I was reminded how intense it felt in the theater to have those giant faces bearing down on you for three hours.

Thank you guys for your suggestions…please keep this coming :)

The Brown Bunny

L’Avventura

just faces? My favorite all time close up is in Bresson’s “L’Argent”, where he introduces Yvon’s character with a close up of his hand clad in a vivid red glove, disconnecting an oil hose from a building and securing it back onto his truck. Very sensual (no, not like that… well, not unless you have a building, pipe fetish).

On the Waterfront- ‘I coulda been a contendah’ scene. “It was you Charlie.. it was you”

Those are nice close-ups :)

Diving Bell and the Butterfly

SERGIO LEONE’s extreme close-ups: duel shots, the buzzing fly on the sweaty, unshaven face, Lee VanCliff’s hands, Henry Fonda’s deep blue eyes, etc…

There’s no other way to put it than “FAR OUT CLOSE-UPS” !!

The close-up and zoom-out of Janet Leighs eye after the shower scene in Psycho. Great stuff!

I got to go with Sergio Leone for this one, mainly Once Upon a Time in the West and Good Bad Ugly.

Another vote for Sergio Leone in his Dollars Trilogy.

And also…..Morgan Woodward in “Cool Hand Luke” as ‘the man with no eyes’. Can anyone really forget those shots with his Ray-Bans mirroring the scenes before him. Scary stuff.

Sergio Leone deserves a special award for his monster CUs.

And ‘Joan of Arc’ definitely lives on the close-up.

The Nicole Kidman close-up in “Birth”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lrDiZQJQg

Isabelle Adjani in Subway by Luc Besson

Only Sergio Leone could, quite literally, turn a face into an epic landscape.

William Holden in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch: “if they move, kill ’em!”

Garbo in Queen Christina

definitely zhang yuan’s “i love you”, he reaches bergman heights there. also his film “green tea”