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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2008-10-25 08:55 pm
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“Appears on the IMDB top 250” is not the answer

How old does a film have to be before you can definitely say it's a classic?
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[personal profile] gerald_duck 2008-10-26 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it would be hard to declare a film definitively a classic until a fresh generation has appreciated it outside the original context. So twenty-five years, perhaps?