His "vengeance" trilogy — in particular the middle chapter, "Oldboy," currently being remade by Spike Lee — is cherished by many cinephiles, in South Korea and beyond, for its blend of visual elegance, melodrama and extreme violence.
Imbued with his customary visual elegance, it made its political points discreetly and well, and built, like all his work, to a quietly devastating conclusion.
Ms. Horovitz was not on stage Friday, but she spoke as she worked her way through the jammed elevators, undersized conference rooms and visual elegance of the Bell Lightbox building, where the Toronto festival now has its headquarters.
Now filmed by Terence Davies, with his characteristic visual elegance, and with Rachel Weisz in the lead, it seems beautiful but remote to us.
"But I find it natural that the elegant mathematical theorems associated with paper surfaces should lead to visual elegance as well".
He believes that it may be print's greater powers of retention and the visual "elegance and opulence" of newspapers and not the serendipity that marks the advantages of print over digital.
Even in referring to football as 'the beautiful game', we acknowledge that it has some aesthetic significance above and beyond other sports; that it exists on a higher cultural plane where grace, style and visual elegance are paramount.
Though this is not a big show, the visual elegance of the works is overwhelming.
Slick, breathless and silly, but also kind of fun, and full of Mr. De Palma's kinky visual elegance.
These recent films, with their visual elegance and unorthodox narrative styles, have divided critics, but have also cemented Mr. Van Sant's reputation as an American auteur.
