"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds," Gilbert K. Chesterton's rebellious artistic mind once pondered. Rules were originally fabricated during the dawn of lateral thinking, in order to describe the tangible, define the feasible foundations of solid materials and ideas, and eventually interpret the complexity of both nature and intellect.
From the breathtaking effect of the Soviet montage to the narrative unconventionality of the French New Wave, and from Yasujirō Ozu's geometrical frames to the lyrical time-covering one-shots of Theo Angelopoulos, cinema is variegated, innovative, and beautiful.
The following list is just meant to focus on 10 significant cinematic creations that are distinguished by enterprising technical elements, and moreover, stand for the decisive turning points of the multi-part curve that defines the evolution of cinema over time.
