Here's a question for everybody: what do you consider to be the best black and white films that have been made in the era of color films? This means that classics such as On The Waterfront and Citizen Kane cant be recognised.
Here's my picks...
1. Raging Bull
2. Schindler's List
3. Good Night, and Good Luck
4. Manhatten
5. The Man Who Wasn't There
P.s and watch out for the Good German (2006) as well
1. Pi
2. Raging bull
3. Clerks
4. Ed Wood
5. The man who wasn't there
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Ed Wood
3. The Man Who Wasn't There
4. Schindler's List
5. Salesman
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Schindler's List
3. Young Frankenstein
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Sin City
sin city is not a black&white movie, film noir does not mean black&white movie, retard, and the few scenes in black&white, doesn't make it a black&white movie, moron
1) pi
2) schindler's list
3) the man who wasn't there
you're an idiot. sin city was is black and white as schindlers list was, except that it was shot on colour film stock, which imo disqualifies it.
sharesorry to burst your bubble but The Man Who Wasn't There was also shot on colour stock initially. The first reel was sent out in colour by accident also, and colour versions are available in Europe and Japan.
shareCorrect. I have a colour version of this one, from Thailand. Looks awesome, btw, as it's not full colour, but faded like those old pics.
shareDoes it make you feel like a big man to call someone else a retard or a moron?
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shmn, you are a clown.
sharenice run-on sentence...jackass. learn how to write before you insult someone's intelligence.
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Technically all black and white movies are filmed with a greyscale.
Sin City is a "black and white" film in the truest sense of the phrase, being the official black and white in the color scheme.
All older "b&W" films weren't actually in black and white. If you want to get technical.
Sin City doesn't count as a b&W movie in the respect this thread is meaning.
There's no need for fussing.
shmn, you're useless
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Pi was fkn unreal! great movie.
The Best of the Best Found Footage films! -
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031694934/
1. Raging Bull
2. Strangelove
3. Lolita
4. Manhattan
5. The Man Who Wasn't There.
6. Persona.
7. Rumblefish
8. Sin City
Pleasantville
Dead Man
Deadman is def in thatlist, one of my fav films of all time.
The Best of the Best Found Footage films! -
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031694934/
In terms of photography alone, not the movie itself:
1 Manhatten
2 Stardust Memories
3 Good Night & Good Luck
4 Schindler's List
5 The Man Who Wasn't There
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when would you say b & w films stopped being "the norm" I just said movies that were made anytime after color was invented
shareWell, I'm not sure when "color was invented" exactly, but The adventures of Robin Hood was the first major color film, and that was from 1938, which would cover a lot of territory. The apartment was the last black-and-white Oscar winner, and that's 1960; how about we include only black-and-white-movies after 1966 (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf)?
shareNo, Schindler's List won Best Picture. The Apartment was the last prior to that.
shareActually, color has been available to filmakers since much earlier. The Great Train Robbery (1903)includes hand painted frames, which was the earliest way to "colorize" films. It was very expensive, and took a very long time obviously. The Technicolor Additive process was used in the mid 20's in such films as The Ten Commandments (1923). In 1932 Technicolor invented a subtractive process that was used in some Disney shorts and the first feature length film to use it was Becky Sharp (1935). 1968 was the first year in which 100% of major studio realeases were released in color, so I suppose you could say that the Age of Color began that year.
sharedid no one mention eraser head?
dolph is duke nukem http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3146356224/tt0926110 they look almost the same
Seriously, the idiots who put Clerks and Sin City in the top 5 are insane.
No one has mentioned Tetsuo yet I don't think. Pi was mentioned, but not the film it was based on. I mean I love Pi, but the guy ripped a lot from Tetsuo, which is also a great black and white movie in the age of colour.
Pi beats the *beep* out of Tetsuo, but IMO, neither of them belongs on this list.
sharei would also suggest le dernier combat*really enjoyed it
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Psycho was shot in black and white as a stylistic choice by Hitchcock, plus he had been shooting in color for his previous movies.
shareThat doesn't mean that Tetsuo is better than Pi. Many films have inspired filmmakers who went onto make better films than the films that influenced them.
That's a loaded sentence, but you get my point.
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1. Eraserhead
2. Stranger Than Paradise
2. Pi
3. Down By Law
4. Psycho
5. Dead Man
('scuse my jarmusched reply)
Here are my lists of visually interesting black and white films of the color era, which is roughly 1954 onwards when mono-pack Eastmancolor became available and 3-strip Technicolor was phased out, but dye-transfer Technicolor printing remained until the late 70s.
1.85:1 black and white films: www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24002262
2.35:1 black and white films: www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=23885387
Also there were many black and white films shot in the Academy ratio (1.37:1) well into the 70s in Scandinavia, Asia - as well as unique examples such as Night of the Living Dead.
1.37:1 black and white films: www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24014418
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I was hoping Eraserhead wouldn't get left out.
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I consider the color era to be sometime after the mid 60s. Maybe 67 or so.
1. Raging Bull
2. Manhattan
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Broadway Danny Rose
5. Down By Law
I think the movies belong in black and white. It is the SILVER screen after all.
I completely forgot Paper Moon. I would put it at number three I think.
shareNobody's mentioned The Apartment, so you're all idiots.
1 The Apartment
2 Schindler's List
3 Manhattan
4 Dr. Strangelove
5 Night of the Living Dead
(6 Psycho)
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I think you might be the first commenter to have included "Night Of The Living Dead". Good choice! :)
share1. La Haine
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. Eraserhead
4. Ed Wood
5. Pi
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Eraserhead, strangelove, raging bull... and probably ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE: THE ELEPHANT MAN, one of the most perfect movies ever made.
1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. Intruder In The Dust (Best 87-minute setup for a 4-word punchline, ever!)
3. The Fortune Cookie
4. Broadway Danny Rose
5. Psycho
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To Mateo:
I got here through your message board. In some of your posts you say you are 13, and the movies you participate in discussions about are not expected to be watched by an average today 13 y.o. The choice of the movies you mention in your post is even more suprising, as well as already developed fascination with Lynch's works. Are you sure your age is not a mistake in translation to English?! (If it is right, there is still hope for film as art.)