Close-Up (#519) USED MGM delves into the history and

delves into the history and impact of the classical style of yakuza film

Brand New 2K Remaster from The Original 35mm Negatives in 1

the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art

Audio commentary with director James Wong and various crew members

FBI agent Jake Malloy falls apart

Close-Up (#519) USED MGM delves into the history andInternationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) 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 well known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation