Terrence Malick's debut movie as a director from 1973 - now revived at London's BFI Southbank - looks even more effortless and sublime 35 years on.
It represents an individual reward for a sublime two years during which Smith's relentless weight of premium, high-pressure runs have nudged him up to 913 ICC ranking points, the 24th highest total achieved by any batsman, three points below Sunil Gavaskar and two above Brian Lara.
The music will sound just as sublime 50 years from now, and more.
Before entering the locker room afterward, A. J. Green, Cincinnati's sublime second-year receiver, stopped to pose for a photograph.
I ask almost every football fan I meet, man or woman, from Bogotá to Medellín to Popayán, if they recognize the name of Yoreli Rincón, the sublime 17-year-old midfielder who established herself at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany in 2010, where Colombia reached a semifinal.
First of all, the size is sublime: over 40 years of records, 11.5m files and 2.6 terabytes of data from the world's fourth largest offshore law firm.
The same is true for Lady Antebellum, whose soft-rock take on country harmonies earned a pair of awards, for Single of the Year (the sublime "Need You Now") and Vocal Group of the Year.
But then Burpee has been around for 135 years and Sublime is the boss's favorite.
I was happy because I have loved his sublime, subversive poems for years; now, more people would read his work.
There would be another 30 years of sublime comic invention, but the world he was describing was gone.
