Deep Focus: The Limehouse Golem - Film Comment.
The relationship between film and reality has always been one of the most contested and debated issues in the film history. Cinematic realism, which is neither a specific criteria to judge the film or a rigid property of the cinematic images, has in another way been an extremely useful concept for theorists to examine the cinematic images’ difference with still photograph, theater and other.
In 1971, Pauline Kael did her best to kill Orson Welles. In “Raising Kane,” an essay originally published in The New Yorker and later used as a lengthy introduction to the published screenplay, she argued that Welles had unfairly taken authorial credit for a film whose real creative force was Welles’ credited co-screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz.
The brilliance of this film comes from the cinematography and shows the assertions of humanity through its use of Mise-en-scene and various technical aspects such as low angle shots and Deep-Focus shots. The use of Deep-Focused shots made this film appeal to people both literally and visually; Deep-Focused.
The cinematography, editing, acting, and narrative in the film has been praised by critics. The use of deep focus technique is considered as the most important cinematographic contribution the film made. In movie production, deep focus is taken to mean having every element of the frame in focus at the same time including the background (Mulvey 48).
Scout is a prolific video essayist and critic, who regularly contributes to RogerEbert.com among other publications. We dive deep into his essay film Beata Virgo Viscera and “Deep Focus: Mike Figgis’ STORMY MONDAY, as reviewed by Roger Ebert,” a video essay edited by Matt Zoller Seitz, narrated by Kim Morgan, and based on a review by Ebert.
Learning how to write a film studies essay does not have to be daunting. In fact, a film studies writing assignment provides the opportunity for an assortment of ideas and topics. Students who are undertaking a film studies course can expect to study an array of films, technical aspects, and theories.
Deep Focus Taking an in-depth look at contemporary filmmaking, Deep Focus explores the world of cinema with compilations, retrospectives, masterclasses, original thematic programmes and various other formats. Deep Focus is the connoisseur’s comfort zone, where a deeper appreciation of the film art is cultivated in all its variety.