“Appears on the IMDB top 250” is not the answer

[ewx]

How old does a film have to be before you can definitely say it's a classic?

Comments

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

is 'classicness' linked to age of a film, or more with the number of people of any given generation that went to see it? (I don't know the answer to that!)

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

In my mind it's bound up with rewatchability. Critical acclaim at a temporal distance is nice but not necessary.