Why Classic Movies Are Still So Important

Get a full month of MUBI FOR FREE: GET YOUR WEIRD GIRL MERCH: Classic movies literally invented movie magic, and they hold a timeless charm that needs to be preserved -- so how can we stop them from dying out? Many young people today haven’t been conditioned to watch movies with black and white visuals, super long takes, film grain, or theatrical dialogue. But there’s a lot that we stand to lose if we keep letting recency bias turn classic cinema into an ever-more-obscure “niche interest.”