Even in its sleek, reconfigured version, "THX" suggests the path that the protean Mr. Lucas might have taken, toward a subjective and subversive personal cinema.

The appliance was more accurately a personal cinema, synchronizing sound and image for the first time, but awkwardly requiring you to stick your head up inside a box.

With notes furnished by the producer, the film exemplifies the sort of personal, self-addressed cinema that one can fathom only on its own terms.

Experimental Film Society unites works by a dozen filmmakers scattered across the globe, whose films are distinguished by an uncompromising, no-budget devotion to personal, experimental cinema.

He raises personal cinema to a new height, by way of an aesthetic that blends control and improvisation in delicate, tenuous balance.

When you consider the original French New Wave, which forsook pure entertainment in favor of a more personal, profound cinema, it's clear that something is up.

He borrowed her aptitude for melodrama in order to splice Hollywood-style dramatic compression to a documentary-based realism in the interest of a personal and philosophical cinema.

"Husbands and Wives" - the entire Allen canon, for that matter - represents a kind of personal cinema for which there is no precedent in modern American movies.

Here is personal cinema that sets standards not even Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut or more recently, Woody Allen has ever achieved.

It introduced to Malayalam a genre of personal cinema, which is deliberately anti-realist.