Mr. Sommers was determined to avoid cinematic tricks.

He added that he wanted simply to capture the beauty and excitement of dance on film without using cinematic tricks like slow motion.

The jolly, scenic documentary uses every cinematic trick in the book - especially speeded-up sequences - to create a boundary-breaking sense of surprise.

Mr. Scorsese relished the opportunity to try out certain cinematic tricks, some of them peculiar to the thriller genre.

That was a cinematic trick adapted for print.

Such new features include "Steel on Bone", a new visual cinematic trick which allows players to cut through the body during a slow-motion sequence.

But Ms. Paltrow isn't recycling cinematic tricks.

The movie flaunts a number of audacious cinematic tricks.

Ms. Veysset portrays a slice of life, specifically of family life on a French farm, but she does so without cinematic tricks.

But Mamoulian, in his first film, displayed more cinematic tricks than most people thought possible in 1929.