I had a discussion with my brother on older movies, and one question that came up was how old films have to be in order to be considered classics?
This is a bit of a shifting target, because at some point today's best movies will be classics.
But at this point in 2024, where would you place the cutoff?
I was thinking about the advent of the blockbuster era as multiplexes led to shifting habits around 1980 (Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders and Raging Bulls places that as the end of) before settling on just before the indie boom in 1989/ 1990 (Sex Lies and Videotape, Metropolitan, Slacker, Do the Right Thing, etc.) The actors and directors are generally still relevant, and there were some game-changing innovations (Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park used CGI, Batman Returns was the first Dolby digital film, Dick Tracy has a digital soundtrack.)
My brother wanted to go a little bit later when CGI became more common.
Where do you see it?