Very little can be added to what you have said. In a review I wrote of Andrew Britton’s criticism I mentioned that I had always said to Robin that he had “spoiled” us at Warwick since later experiences of higher education never matched up to that positive environment he created while there.

When I think about it there is a continuous vein throughout the autuer’s Robin wrote about. A moment of transcendence where the director sublimely delivers an episode of cinematic poetry that lives with you forever..The opening sequence of Touch of Evil…’Living between the winds’ in The Searchers..’Take ‘em to Missouri Matt’ in Red River.. Bell ringing in Scarlet Empress. The bird on a string in The Wild Bunch.
The blood dripping in the glass which alerts Dude in Rio Bravo. The song that unites the group..the Hawksian moment.
Mizoguchi ghost house transmutation in Ugetsu Monogatari..I could go on.
Everyone probably has their favourite moment.
Robin saw all the moments I’m sure, all those terpsechorean moments that lifted the films he gave us out of the ordinary and which will endure forever.
Those sparks of filmic brilliance, those moments of transition, certainly affected me and inspired him to bring them to our attention. I wonder if my life would have been enhanced as it has been if Robin had not existed.