Passing of time/old movies warning youngens...

[Rev. Rye]

I have a big collection of DVDs, and they vary wildly in when they were made.

To give you some idea, The oldest film in my collection is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), and the most recent one is Jesus Bro (a religious spoof from The Cinema Snob's Brad Jones, released Direct to DVD this Good Friday). The most recent films I bought are Prisoners and a six-pack of Randolph Scott Westerns (one old enough that Angela Lansbury actually plays a young woman in one!).

I honestly don't think that the films in my collection really skew too heavily in one direction chronologically. Well, maybe there aren't as many silent films as I'd like, but given that Kino and Criterion more or less have a lock on them in R1 and they tend to be expensive, that's likely more for practical reasons. And I suspect that if I catalogued it all by year and decade, there might be a fewer films from the 80s than many might expect, maybe because I think it may be the weakest decade in cinema, due to studios stagnating into the blockbuster "high concept" era and independents not really rising.

Also, with regards to the OP, I think Key Largo is okay, but nothing compared to the other Bogie/Huston film of 1948, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.