Favorite Black and White Movies

[kenites]

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Today's cinema is full of colors and superb visual effect that it's hard to imagine watching films that is black and white. But in my opinion some of the greatest film of all time was shot in black and white. My fellow istoryans let's share what are our favorite black and white movies.

Here's mine:
Sunset Blvd.
Citizen's Kane
Raging Bull
Pycho
Schindler's List
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bicycle Thief
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
City Lights
Clerks
Elephant Man
Dr. Strangelove
Sin City
12 Angry Men

For now these is what I remember
What's yours?

[BertR]

It's actually Citizen Kane NOT Citizen's Kane (hehe) Mura man gug Shaving Ryan's Private

Seems like you have a certain distaste over colored films. I don't really think it matters much as long as you have a very competent director who uses color to its advantage.

I mean take for example the following:
Antonioni's Red Desert or Blow-up, Kubrick's 2001, Bergman's Cries and Whispers, basically all of Malick's work (from Badlands to The Tree of Life), Jean-Pierre Jeunet's work (esp. Amelie), Visconti's work (esp. Il Gattopardo), among many others - these could have never worked as much as they do if they were shot in black and white

My choices:
Bergman - Persona/Wild Strawberries/The Seventh Seal
Bresson - Diary of a Country Pries/A Man Escaped/Pickpocket
Tarkovsky - Ivanovo Detstvo/Andrei Rublev
Fellini - 8 1/2
Antonioni - L'Avventura
Wilder - of his oeuvre I much prefer Double Indemnity over Sunset Blvd
de Sica - Umberto D. over The Bicycle Thieves (don't know but I'm just not impressed with TBT)
Kurosawa - definitely Seven Samurai over Rashomon
Ozu - Tokyo Story
Mizoguchi - Sansho Dayu
Ophuls - Letter from an Unknown Woman
Marker - La Jetee
(and many others I can't recall at the moment)
I'm just not impressed with Kubrick's Dr.Strangelove (of his b&w siguro I'll choose The Killing), Lynch's Elephant Man (of his b&w siguro I'll choose Eraserhead), sa mga movies ni Hitchcock although I love Psycho my favorite would be Rear Window pero sa mga b&w niya mas ganahan ko sa Strangers on a Train or Notorious

[Countess of Gomorrah]

Here' my list:
Sin City
Seven Samurai
Schindler's List

There's this one classic film that I can't seem to remember the title.
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The lips which will be markedly full and red are drawn back from the teeth which gleam long, sharp as razors, and ivory white.

[Count of Monte Cristo]

renaissance
sin city
seven samurai

[I_dontknow]

3 stooges

[kenites]

It's actually Citizen Kane NOT Citizen's Kane (hehe) Mura man gug Shaving Ryan's Private

Seems like you have a certain distaste over colored films. I don't really think it matters much as long as you have a very competent director who uses color to its advantage.

Tnx for the correction, wala ko kabantay

B&W or colored doesn't really matter as long as I enjoyed the movie.
This topic comes to me when a friend of mine saw my B&W movies and asked me how can I enjoy these kind of movies. He thinks it's kinda dull and boring. But hey there are a lot of great movies that was shot in B&W.

Tnx for your post
Murag di pud kaayo ko familiar sa mga movies imo gi post.
Pero naa ko nakita na nga movie ni Fellini kadto La Dolce Vita.

[BertR]

Tnx for the correction, wala ko kabantay

B&W or colored doesn't really matter as long as I enjoyed the movie.
This topic comes to me when a friend of mine saw my B&W movies and asked me how can I enjoy these kind of movies. He thinks it's kinda dull and boring. But hey there are a lot of great movies that was shot in B&W.

Tnx for your post
Murag di pud kaayo ko familiar sa mga movies imo gi post.
Pero naa ko nakita na nga movie ni Fellini kadto La Dolce Vita.

Ah ok.
La Dolce Vita, unsa imong ikasulti ani na brilliant film?
Actually this was released in Cannes on the same year with L'Avventura, which became controversial. Critics were divided. In the end, they gave the first prize (Palme D'or) to La Dolce Vita and second prize (Grand Prize) to L'Avventura. L'Avventura was an astounding film in many levels and it also became revolutionary. I love La Dolce Vita also because it was just really, really brilliant and it was the best dissection on bourgeois class and their boredom. And from start to finish it has this sorta musical quality/tone that you kinda dance into. And I've always and forever will love Fellini's alter ego, Marcello Mastroianni. Murag sa La Dolce Vita man pud siguro gikan ang word na PAPARAZZI based on Marcello Mastroianni's character's best friend who's named Paparazzo.

Kung ganahan gid kag black and white, besides sa akong gipangsuwat sa ibabaw, I also recommend you the following (kung wa pa ka kita):

Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958 )
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
Faith Trilogy ni Bergman (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence)
Breathless (Godard, 1960)
King Kong (Cooper, 1933)
Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, 1959)
The Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
Naked Island (1960) and Onibaba (1964) - both by Kaneto Shindo
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948 )

I'm just trying to recall some really great black and white films. Nya murag mao pa na akong mahuna-huna. And there are a lot of really excellent films in b&w! Though sometimes you crave for color when you're overexposed to these films. ehehehe

still, I like your thread because it promotes black and white films!

[Tirong-say]

Charlie Chaplain and Three Stooges.

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It's a Wonderful Life
How Green Was My Valley
Pleasantville

[kenites]

It's actually Citizen Kane NOT Citizen's Kane (hehe) Mura man gug Shaving Ryan's Private

Seems like you have a certain distaste over colored films. I don't really think it matters much as long as you have a very competent director who uses color to its advantage.

I mean take for example the following:
Antonioni's Red Desert or Blow-up, Kubrick's 2001, Bergman's Cries and Whispers, basically all of Malick's work (from Badlands to The Tree of Life), Jean-Pierre Jeunet's work (esp. Amelie), Visconti's work (esp. Il Gattopardo), among many others - these could have never worked as much as they do if they were shot in black and white

My choices:
Bergman - Persona/Wild Strawberries/The Seventh Seal
Bresson - Diary of a Country Pries/A Man Escaped/Pickpocket
Tarkovsky - Ivanovo Detstvo/Andrei Rublev
Fellini - 8 1/2
Antonioni - L'Avventura
Wilder - of his oeuvre I much prefer Double Indemnity over Sunset Blvd
de Sica - Umberto D. over The Bicycle Thieves (don't know but I'm just not impressed with TBT)
Kurosawa - definitely Seven Samurai over Rashomon
Ozu - Tokyo Story
Mizoguchi - Sansho Dayu
Ophuls - Letter from an Unknown Woman
Marker - La Jetee
(and many others I can't recall at the moment)
I'm just not impressed with Kubrick's Dr.Strangelove (of his b&w siguro I'll choose The Killing), Lynch's Elephant Man (of his b&w siguro I'll choose Eraserhead), sa mga movies ni Hitchcock although I love Psycho my favorite would be Rear Window pero sa mga b&w niya mas ganahan ko sa Strangers on a Train or Notorious

About La Dolce Vita, honestly we don't share the same admiration for the movie. Siguro I wasn't attentive enough to appreciate it .
I really don't know what makes a good movie. I watched movie for entertainment, there are some that can move my emotion, makes me cry or laugh or smile and sometimes give me a nostalgic feeling. There's something about the movie, I think the power to touch your soul...
I will try some of the movies you've posted. Pero murag lalom man kaayo ni nga mga movies, I might not grasp the greatness of the movie I'm currently downloading Tokyo Story, I find the synopsis quite interesting and I just like listening niponggo and the way the Japz delivers them.
Siguro I'll checked Fellini's 8 1/2 or some Bergman's movie. I've always heard about Fellini and Bergman, the first time I heard Bergman I confused him for Ingrid Bergman.
Nakakita na pud ko ana Werckmeister Harmonies and honestly I checked this movie coz of its positive reviews and it falls under the horror genre. Though at times it can give me an eerie feeling but I think it's quite dragging.

Tnx for sharing your expertise
It seems like you're well verse in good movies or movie making.
Pls do post more