I may be overdoing it with the “plus” attached to the “A” here, but you can not overstate how important this movie was to me growing up. Not only is it funny and beautiful (Gordon Willis, DP, and Mel Bourne, designer, really knock it out of the park) but the movie has a fatalistic melancholy that really resonated with me at age 13. Also, the movie is “deep.” It really is. And it is all earned. This was probably the first “deep” movie that resonated with me (probably because it is also funny and dazzling visually. It’s running on Sundance channel a lot these days, so do yourself a favor and check it out. I like it better than “8 1/2,” the movie it so brazenly rips off.