Movie Classics

[Rev. Rye]

This may just be me, but I bristle at the thought of calling any movie released after the end of 1966 “old.” It’s not even because it makes me feel old (since that’s over two decades before I was born); it’s more because my knowledge of film is just that longitudinal, and I believe that 1967 (what with the repeal of the Hays Code and, to a lesser extent, the film industry all but totally abandoning Black and White cinematography) marks such a fundamental sea change in the way films were made that using any other trend as a dividing line (with the exception of the rise of talkies) seems trivial.