Many of the sound bites, so to speak, were intriguing, but the whole sounded as though it needed the accompaniment of an enigmatic animated film short to lend coherence.

Her tender-tough way with ideas and images - a kind of loaded nonchalance - extends to the short, enigmatic film that completes the show.

Like his enigmatic films, this Chilean director's controversial reputation admits no easy answer.

That was the beginning of what she calls a "romance with mystery," not a bad description of her own passionately evocative, enigmatic films.

The protagonist of "Wimbledon Stage," the series's most visually haunting and enigmatic film, is a woman who travels to Trieste and then to England to research the life of a famous intellectual.

The Being from Earth, just like his short film Ginger Hel, is an extremely enigmatic film.

"The 1946 version is definitely a more enigmatic film, and there's more of Lauren Bacall in it," said the critic Leonard Maltin.

Whether the boys are tied for punishment or safekeeping is one of the lesser mysteries of this intentionally enigmatic and unintentionally tired Greek film.

"Bodo" is a handsome but very enigmatic film that is hard to follow as it abruptly shifts from one character to another.

And that is why Ms. Neuwirth (pronounced NOY-veert) has dared to turn Mr. Lynch's most enigmatic film, "Lost Highway," into an opera.