It was a quick (and surprising) sensation upon its 1983 release, so the cosmic flick, whose title is drawn from a Hopi word meaning “life out of balance," became the first entry in the Qatsi trilogy.

Somehow still, the film manages to be hilarious, heart-wrenching, shocking, infuriating, and genuinely exciting, while still feeling like an honest, microcosmic appraisal of America ...