Also alluded to are Michelangelo Antonioni's "Avventura," with its stark juxtapositions of ancient and modern images, and Alain Resnais's elegant, memory-obsessed mind bender, "Last Year at Marienbad".
"Dogs" may be minor compared with the elegant "Memories of Murder" and the high-octane "Host," but it's funny from start to finish and showed that Mr. Bong's films would not be characterized by the misogyny that finds such multifarious expression in Korean cinema.
Inspired by hybridity, this elegant collection of memory and images is richly layered, novelistic, poetic, intimately and intricately imagined.
Kazu Kumagai and Derick K. Grant performed the touchingly intimate, sophisticated "Duet" to a live instrumental version of Mr. Jackson's "Human Nature," and the elegant Kendrick Jones evoked memories of the great tap dancer Jimmy Slyde with "Greatest Show on Earth," also in honor of the King of Pop.
He simply does everything right in The Seven Sins of Memory, with elegant writing that smoothly integrates a discussion of current memory research with its undeniable impact on all our lives.
The result was Circles, an elegant take on classic memory games.
Perhaps overlooked is one of the most challenging, yet elegant, films in recent memory: Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's French feature, Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert as its complicated heroine.
His elegant surroundings evoked only memories of insipid boiled potatoes and "swaddled body heat".
It is, of course, art rather than history — an elegant composition of dreams, memories and suggestive images — but its artfulness seems like an alibi, an excuse for keeping the ugliness of history out of the picture.
Elegant, gentle and kind, his memory will live on through all who had the profound chance to know him.
