(June 16, 2025 at 2:34 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: 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.
I think the subject is classic movies, not old movies (although there's considerable overlap). Saying 'Jaws is fifty years old' isn't the same as calling Jaws an old movie, but it's certainly a classic.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
