It was recognized as aesthetically powerful, using cinematic techniques more effectively than most other films.
Duras, who is also a film-maker, uses cinematic techniques such as flashback and repetition.
Her affinity for cinematic techniques, and montage in particular, is readily apparent in "Storming Heaven".
This fractured narrative approach is nearer to the cinematic techniques of Robert Altman than to literature.
TV directors, no longer constrained by shooting for a small, grainy screen, could try more innovative, cinematic techniques.
Bernstein's music, Sondheim's lyrics and Robbins's choreography are great, but as a movie it falls short of the truly inspired cinematic musicals.
Using cinematic techniques like freeze frame, slow pan and flashback, he translates the resourcefulness of film editing to the stage.
"The movie's biggest strength is its knowing burlesques of antiquated cinematic techniques," Stephen Holden said in The Times in 1992.
It became the most effective new theatre form developed by the Project, vividly dealing, in flashing cinematic techniques, with the realities of agriculture, housing, and economics.
While the team isn't beholden to Mr. Haynes's vision, Mr. Greif said that he has looked for theatrical flourishes to echo the movie's cinematic techniques.
During the second half of the 20th century, however, imaginative and innovative cinematic techniques were employed to record operas, ballets, and stage plays.
