Width and without, part three; or, how close is too close for comfort?

I find closeups of actors' faces to be the most consistently disappointing images of recent movies shot in wide-screen. Since few faces are that much wider than they are tall, a wide-screen closeup often results in lots of empty space—as closeups tend to be filmed in shallow focus, the remaining portion of the shot usually contains little in the way of depth-of-field.…

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