Buy: Close-Ups
Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com and proprietor of the wonderful film blog Scanners, has been re-uploading his video essays to a new server and in the process bringing them to my mind after a long absence. His best so far is this “free association dream sequence” from October 2007 centered around the theme of close-ups:
close-up from Jim Emerson on Vimeo.
I could watch it again and again. It makes me want to stick a camera in someones face and just hold it there real bad.
(And if you don’t get that feeling from close-ups, try getting it from Matt Zoller Seitz’s essay on “Following”:
If neither of these make you remember how much you love movies, you probably never loved them very much in the first place.)
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I’m not super impressed. What’d he use Laura Palmer for? That’s from the show, not the movie.
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