Screen Path
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Close Up

1989500 minutesDocumentaryDirected by Tiziano Sossi
About the film

Close Up at a glance.

Screen Path places this 1989 film at stop 108 in one curated journey through cinema. The learning experience adds context before you watch and deeper analysis after.

More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.

Principal cast

Michelangelo Antonioni as Self (archive footage), Asia Argento as Self (archive footage), Dario Argento as Self (archive footage), Roberto Benigni as Self (archive footage), and Jim Carrey as Self (archive footage)

Key craft credits

Tiziano Sossi (editor)

Director
Tiziano Sossi
Release
2012-09-30
Runtime
500 minutes
Genres
Documentary
Country
Italy
Quiz
50 questions
The Screen Path journey

Before. After. Remember.

The featured film is watched outside Screen Path. The app provides the learning experience around it: a guide, an analysis, and a quiz with explanations.

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Before you watch

Start with a spoiler-free video guide to the context and filmmaking choices worth noticing.

Spoiler-free
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After the film

Return after watching for a deeper video analysis of craft, meaning, and legacy.

Contains spoilers
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Quiz yourself

Answer 50 questions with clear rationales designed to make the ideas stick.

50 questions in this journey

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