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In mainstream film, you have to go back to the silents to find imagery this unfettered.
And yet, even Nanook might have made the AFI list a generation ago, as might such other silents as Clyde Bruckman and Keaton's The General (1927), King Vidor's The Crowd (1928), or D.W.
Back then, moviegoers in search of culture were not only closer in time to the silents, they also acknowledged their stature, and stature mattered to audiences then more than it does now.
(Sragow unfashionably named it the best film of the year in SF Weekly .) You could wait for video, but if you can find Pig in the City playing anywhere on a big screen--an hour away, in a strip mall, only at 2 p.m., in the middle of a blizzard--see it, because you'd have to go back to the silents to find its like visually, and no silent picture could have had this kind of soundtrack.