Ms. Insdorf said in an e-mail that the new film "builds on Murch's visual achievements in 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' seamlessly inserting characters into archival footage, and juxtaposing 'authentic' images with newly shot ones".
James Cameron generally feels so damn certain of the importance and magnitude of his technical and visual achievements that he doesn't seem to see a need for an actually well-written and crafted story (Sorry, but Terminator 2 is largely a stupid stupid story).
It is the conceptual quality of Blake's art that raises it above the run of British visual achievement.
Abstract considerations such as the artist's name or the previous owners' celebrity are now the prevalent criteria, while visual achievement becomes almost irrelevant.
One reason is that while he always followed the imperatives of Constructivist abstraction, he worked in so many different media that no singular visual achievement has come to be associated with his name.
Dean was also cinematographer (duties which saw him awarded at this year's Venice film festival) and while even a teenager filming on a busted iPhone could capture a sense of this region's beauty, Tanna is a consummate visual achievement.
The white porcelain robots Chris Cunningham designed for All is Full of Love, her greatest visual achievement, are pretty nifty up close: one scuffed and half-assembled, the other fuller and more feminine.
This sumptuous exhibition attests to their visual achievement with gold, silver and carved calcite vessels; weapons, tools and cylinder seals; and ingenious jewelry made of lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold.
But going by the Hirshhorn show, "Ai Weiwei: According to What?," it would be inaccurate to say that Mr. Ai's fame rests primarily on his visual achievement, even factoring in his role in helping the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron design the Beijing Olympic stadium popularly known as the Bird's Nest.
Much as his fellow countrymen Mike Newell, Stephen Frears and Roger Michell do today, Neame seemed to apply the same disengaged competence to whatever came across his desk, be it "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (for which Maggie Smith won her first Oscar in 1969) or "The Poseidon Adventure" (which won Oscars for "visual achievement" and best song in 1972).
However, the study on radial well fracturing is still at the preliminary stage, the fracture morphology and propagation law of radial well fracturing still remain unclear, especially lacking visual achievement, which limits the development and application of radial well fracturing.
