I hate black and white movies
...it remand me of my poor youth when we didn't have enough money for a color TV
shareThat's a pretty subjective reason not to like black and white films. Some of the greatest films ever made were in black and white, Casablanca and Citizen Kane just two name two. On the flip side of your reason, when I was very young I thought that the reason movies made in the 30s and 40s were in bw was that the world was in black and white back then. Pretty silly, I admit.
There are some older movies that, because color was such a prohibitively expensive process, and, in the old days just too experimental to deal with, were made in standard bw, but should have been in any case. Try watching Dead End and imagine it in color. I can't. Some films were just made for that format, and I think Frances Ha was very niceky shot. It was very atmospheric and correct, in my opinion.
You might want to remember that the two films you highlight were made in an era when color film was RARELY used. Color film didn't become prevalent until the 1950s; even the Oscars had separate cinematography awards for black-and-white and color films from the 1939 awards (although "Special Achievement" awards were presented between 1936-38) until the 1967 awards. Generally, during this era, "spectacle" films (big epics and musicals) and the Disney animated films were in color while other films were black-and-white (before any "but _____ was done in color and it wasn't a spectacle film" or "but ______ was in black-and-white and it was spectacle film" objections are raised, yes, I'm aware that there are exceptions; that's why I wrote "generally"). And the reason I focus on the cinematography award is that it took a great deal of skill to turn color subjects (ie, actors and scenery) into black-and-white film so that the final result still looked real (and most modern cinematographers don't dispute this).
Since 1967, perhaps a dozen B&W movies, deliberately filmed in B&W, have been nominated for cinematography (and "Schindler's List" is the only one to have won). And, there've probably been slightly more than that many B&W films that have been nominated for Best Picture (with only 2--"Schindler's List" and "The Artist"--winning in that period; in fact, "Schindler's" was the first B&W film to win the Best Picture award since "The Apartment" in 1960).