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Cloisonné
Cloisonné (jingtailan, 景泰蓝; Japanese shippō) is an enamelling technique using wire cells filled with glass enamel and fired, with Mycenaean, Byzantine, Chinese, and Japanese traditions.
Cloisonnism
Cloisonnism is a style of late nineteenth-century French painting using flat areas of color separated by dark contours, developed by Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin around 1887.
Cloisters Cross
The Cloisters Cross is a large Romanesque altar cross carved in walrus ivory in England around 1150–60, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1963.
Clone High
Clone High (Clone High U.S.A.) is an American-Canadian adult animated comedy by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence about teen clones of historical figures; one MTV season in 2002-2003, canceled after Gandhi protests, revived on Max in 2023.
Clone trooper
Clone trooper (クローン・トルーパー), also called Republic clone soldier, is a Star Wars soldier grown on Kamino from Jango Fett's template; debuted at Geonosis, served 22–19 BBY, and executed Order 66 against the Jedi.
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (1926-2021), American actress and comedian, Oscar winner for The Last Picture Show and eight-time Primetime Emmy winner, known as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein.
Close (2022 film)
Close (2022) is Lukas Dhont's drama about 13-year-old friends Léo and Rémi, whose bond breaks under peer suspicion. Cannes Grand Prix winner, Oscar-nominated Belgian film starring Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, distinct from the 2019 Noomi Rapace thriller of the same name.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Steven Spielberg's 1977 Columbia Pictures science fiction film starring Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, titled from J. Allen Hynek's UFO encounter classification, with a 1980 Special Edition and 1998 director's cut.
Close Enough
Close Enough is an American adult animated surreal comedy created by J.G. Quintel (Regular Show), streaming on HBO Max 2020–2022. Josh, Emily, daughter Candice, and divorced roommates Alex and Bridgette share an LA house; three seasons, 24 episodes, then cancelled.
Close Friends Only
Close Friends Only (CFO) is a tech-house DJ collective from the Coachella Valley, California, founded in 2021, known for comedy-filled Twitch sets and 2026 festival bookings like EDC Las Vegas.
Close Personal Friends
Close Personal Friends is an upcoming Amazon MGM Studios comedy directed by Jason Orley, written by Isaac Aptaker, starring Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid, and Henry Golding as two couples who befriend each other in Santa Barbara; Meghan Markle cameos as herself.
Close reading
Close reading is a method of literary analysis in which a reader examines a short passage in careful detail, attending to wording and structure, to account for its meaning.
Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind
Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind is Rick and Morty season 1 episode 10, aired April 7, 2014 on Adult Swim. Written by Ryan Ridley, it introduces the Citadel of Ricks, the Council of Ricks, the Central Finite Curve, and the villain Evil Morty.
Close to Me (film)
Close to Me (Muori di lei) is a 2025 Italian-Serbian erotic thriller by Stefano Sardo, starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria Chiara Giannetta, and Mariela Garriga, about a lockdown-era obsession with a neighbor; distinct from the 2021 miniseries and 2009 Taiwanese film of the same name.
Close to the Edge
Close to the Edge (1972) is Yes's fifth album, recorded at Advision Studios by Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, and Bruford; three long tracks, No. 4 UK, widely called the band's finest and a prog landmark.
Close to the Enemy
Close to the Enemy (also Close To The Enemy) is Stephen Poliakoff's seven-part 2016 BBC Two drama starring Jim Sturgess and August Diehl, set in a bomb-damaged 1946 London hotel, following an intelligence officer recruiting a captured German jet-engine scientist.
Close to You (The Carpenters album)
Close to You is the Carpenters' second studio album, released on A&M Records in August 1970. Its singles "(They Long to Be) Close to You," the duo's first US No. 1, and "We've Only Just Begun" made it their breakthrough.
Close Your Eyes (2022 film)
Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) is Víctor Erice's 2022-shot, 2023-premiered Spanish-Argentine drama about a director probing a lead actor's 1990 disappearance; his first feature in 31 years, starring Manolo Solo, José Coronado, and Ana Torrent.
Close Your Eyes (클로즈 유어 아이즈) (group)
Close Your Eyes (클로즈 유어 아이즈, CYE) is a seven-member multinational K-pop boy group formed on JTBC's PROJECT 7, debuting April 2, 2025 under UNCORE with ETERNALT; fans are CLOSER, with 310,000-copy debut first-week sales and nine rookie awards.
Close-up
Close-up (CU): a camera shot tightly framing a subject, usually a face, to emphasize emotion or detail; subtypes include medium close-up, extreme close-up, insert, and choker; used since early silent film, notably The Great Train Robbery (1903) and Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
Close-Up (کلوزآپ، نمای نزدیک) (1990 film)
Close-Up (کلوزآپ، نمای نزدیک; Nema-ye Nazdik) is Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 Iranian fiction-documentary hybrid about Hossain Sabzian, who impersonated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf; the real participants reenact the 1989 fraud case and trial.
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), 1966 Czechoslovak tragicomedy by Jiří Menzel from Bohumil Hrabal's novella; apprentice dispatcher Miloš Hrma in occupied Bohemia; won the 1968 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Closer (Dennis Cooper novel)
Closer (1989) is Dennis Cooper's first novel, published by Grove Press, opening the five-book George Miles cycle about a passive gay teen in suburban Los Angeles; it won the Ferro-Grumley Award and was reissued by Serpent's Tail in 2023.
Closer (film)
Closer is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Nichols, adapted by Patrick Marber from his stage play, starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen.
Closer (Joy Division album)
Closer is Joy Division's second and final studio album, also called the band's posthumous 1980 release. Recorded March 1980 at Britannia Row with producer Martin Hannett, released July 1980 on Factory two months after Ian Curtis's death.
Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)
Closer, by Nine Inch Nails (Halo 9, 'Closer To God'), a 1994 single from The Downward Spiral built on a sampled 'Nightclubbing' kick, peaking at US 41 and UK 25 with a censored Mark Romanek video.
Closer (The Chainsmokers song)
Closer is a 2016 EDM-pop duet by The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey, released July 29, 2016 from the Collage EP. It spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, borrowed its hook from The Fray's Over My Head, and earned a 2017 Grammy nomination.
Closing Night (film)
Closing Night is a 2026 drama, Cody Fern's directorial debut co-written with Devon Bostick, starring Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, and Dianne Wiest as an estranged family; it premiered at TIFF 2026 seeking distribution.
Closing Party Elrow Town Marbella
The Closing Party Elrow Town Marbella is a separate ticketed event that closes elrow's Elrow Town Marbella festival in Marbella, Spain, first held in 2024.
Closing Time (album)
Closing Time (1973) is Tom Waits' debut album on Asylum Records, produced by Jerry Yester in Hollywood; twelve Waits-penned piano ballads including "Ol' '55," later covered by the Eagles.