"Olympia," too, was a breathtaking cinematic and technical triumph.
Panahi's career as a film-maker began as a protégé of Abbas Kiarostami, and soon assumed a distinctive character of its own, increasingly fusing two converging aspects – formal and thematic – that became his cinematic signature: technical virtuosity in his cinematic imagination and social consciousness, which graced his aesthetic formalism.
In a lengthy (one might even say rambling, in the true Musk style) presentation, we were treated to cinematic and technical views of the planned rocket, which is already under construction and could take flight as early as a couple years from now — and Musk then candidly held forth on numerous topics in a lengthy Q&A period.
Intriguing narrative complexities arise from contrasts of cinematic fantasy and technical reality, and from the presence of luminaries like Michelle Pfeiffer, Barbra Streisand and Francis Ford Coppola Johnsonn).
Olympia Part I: Festival of the Nations and Part II: Festival of Beauty, both released in 1938, represent a tremendous aesthetic and technical cinematic achievement.
"I choose what films I will work in on the basis not of the script but of the director, and he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors.
But Psihoyos knew that no matter the technical and cinematic achievements of his film, he would need something more to convince the Japanese people that what was happening at the cove must stop.
A famous sign on the wall in Billy Wilder's office asked, "What would Lubitsch have done?" Wilder meant the question as a tribute to Ernst Lubitsch, his master, mentor and sometime boss -- a comic filmmaker whose elegant and effortless command represented, to Wilder and many others, the apogee of cinematic wit, sophistication and technical precision.
Ray acknowledged his debts to Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut of the French New Wave for introducing new technical and cinematic innovations.
Each technical advance in cinematic art posed a fresh problem in makeup.
Neither the "Star Wars" series nor the "Harry Potter" series is a cinematic masterpiece, but both blend technical and storytelling magic in an undeniably compelling way.
