Coaaab posted:

The first time I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, New Year's Eve (2000 to 2001) on TCM, where I marveled at how the disparate pieces of the story could fit together into one film. The effect was no doubt exacerbated by me alternating between watching that and the scrambled Spice Channel nurse marathon that night, similar to this scene from Ceylan's Distant.

Tarkovsky's Mirror (on DVD at college) was the one that really showed me that a film didn't even have to adhere to a chronological narrative, following instead a sort of emotional logic. It befuddled me the first time around, but a subsequent viewing for a class a couple years later made me appreciate it more. Over ten years on, I really want to watch it again (preferably in a theater) to see how it stacks up to my favorite films.