Simon slipped into a Yankees cap, lugged his acoustic guitar out to shallow center field and sang his famous verse about lost innocence, soundtrack for cinematic drama.

It all boils down to one man trying to kill another man: so long as you've got that, I think you can make a cinematic drama out of it.

The saint's ambush and murder are treated as cinematic high drama, with the assassin's sword-arm about to descend.

Jamie Peck of MTV wrote of the video, "The whole thing is delightfully ridiculous in its cinematic drama".

He added that Wentworth is "a powerful, almost cinematic drama" with its own identity, that incorporates "echoes" of the original Prisoner series.

Mr. Davis avoided that pitfall by presenting the symphony as an almost cinematic drama.

In it the scene of ambush and murder is treated as cinematic high drama, with the assassin's sword-arm about to descend.

It was also, we knew, a slight manipulation of events: in our first test of choosing between the interests of purely "documentary" objectivity, and those of cinematic drama, we came up wanting.

But the forms did not constrain his imagination: color, sentimentality and even a kind of cinematic drama pour out of the piece.

Rubinstein caught the almost cinematic drama of these pieces as well as the sheer beauty of their surfaces.