Sentences with phrase «visually ravishing»

«At times it becomes a visually ravishing dream world,» says Glover.

The late filmmaker Derek Jarman became an underground hero for such visually ravishing movies as his 1986 Caravaggio, and throughout his life he was also a committed painter himself, scratching out large, raw, confessional canvases that brimmed with emotion.

For the past decade and a half, the artist Wangechi Mutu has been combining both elements — unpopular content and desirable form — in a series of magnetic, salon - size figurative collages that are as politically nuanced as they are visually ravishing.

Little's paintings are technically virtuosic and visually ravishing.

Nebraska is the first film by Payne that is visually ravishing.

A Special Jury Prize, meanwhile, was presented to Portuguese - Brazilian duo João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora for their film «The Dead and the Others,» a visually ravishing tale of indigenous traditions and mythology in north Brazil; in their speech, the directors explained they intended the film as a rejoinder to less positive, urban - dominated portrayals of the country in its national cinema.

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calls it a «mysterious, musically glorious and visually ravishing film,» and Alissa Wilkinson of Vox writes, «Cold War is a gorgeous, unyielding heartbreaker.

Not exact matches

Alejandro Ulloa's opulent cinematography looks positively ravishing on Kino's new Blu - ray release, surpassing Mondo Macabro's already visually impressive DVD from 2003 when it comes to bringing out fine details of costume and set design, like the diaphanous mesh of Nadia's spider - woman costume and the various apparatuses and caged animals that litter Dr. Zimmer's laboratory.

With apologies to Minority Report, the year's most visually breathtaking action movie was China's Hero, a ravishing post-Crouching Tiger wuxia epic with an oddly pro-empire message and a stunning cast of Hong Kong legends, including Jet Li, who took a break from making dumb American B - movies for long enough to anchor something great.