I've seen stuff like Man Boarding a Train but I think the oldest movie I actually like watching just to watch would be The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari from 1920.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lawrence of Arabia is from 1962, but that's not that old.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Never got around to seeing that but I've heard the blackface is done tastefully.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There's actual Arabs in the movie as well as white people in Arabface. I was thinking today of doing some kind of writeup about how Lawrence of Arabia is actually an anti-white savior movie. It's really a "well-intentioned white people make everything worse" movie. Christopher Caudwell's essay about T.E. Lawrence as the last bourgeois hero in history is also pretty essential.