Favorite B&W movie?

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Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:41pm

What's your favorite black and white movie?

I haven't seen that many - any I have I've loved, because of the atmosphere and style, but that's probably because they were made in a different (better?) era...
For some reason, I was always put off because it was in black and white. Don't worry, I'm more mature now!

Anyway, mine's The Hunchback of NotreDame.

Updated On: 11/4/04 at 02:41 PM

#2

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:44pm

Partial - The Wizard of Oz

Complete B&W film (and one of the greatest ever) - All About Eve.
Although Welle's Othello had BREATHTAKING cinematography!

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:45pm

March Of the Wooden Soldiers and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? are the only two I can think of at the moment.

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:48pm

this is nearly impossible to narrow down -- one could go with B & W when it was the only form or films that were intentionally made in B & W when color was prominent...

to the later -- "To Kill a Mockingbird" (although it is one of the best films made in Holywood history)

I'd add "Double Indemnity" as one of the best film noir and the total use of black & white as a piece of art...

And no list would be complete without "All About Eve"....

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Updated On: 11/4/04 at 02:48 PM

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:48pm

Trouble in Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis. Heaven.

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#6

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:48pm

Clerks
Nosferatu (even tho it's more yellow than white...)

#7

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:49pm

I love "The Philadelphia Story" -- I think it was one of the first B&W movies that I saw. "It Happened One Night" is also a great one, but I just loved Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lords.

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:49pm

Manhattan
Sweet Smell of Success
All About Eve
Some Like It Hot
Eraserhead

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Updated On: 11/4/04 at 02:49 PM

#9

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:53pm

Oh, Streetcar Named Desire, of course!
Note: Holy flying poop, someone else has seen Eraserhead and likes it.

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:54pm

Double Indemnity has just to be on that list as does Citizan Kane, and Some Like it Hot.

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#11

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:55pm

The Miracle Worker.

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 3:00pm

Dark Victory

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:14pm

Oh yeah, I forgot about The Wizard of Oz, and Manhattan!
I also love Psycho. Still love Hunchback though - I'm reading 'Tis Herself at the moment - and can't get enough Maureen O'Hara!

#14

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:16pm

All About Eve & Casablanca are neck and neck.

#15

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:17pm

Definitely "It Happened One Night", "Topper", & "The Thin Man".
I always laugh!

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:19pm

top hat and its a wonderful life

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:14pm

Beauty and the Beast (The one directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946, not the infantile Disney version) it is the most beautifully filmed movie.

Casablanca

#18

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:18pm

Freaks!

#19

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:19pm

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Caine Mutiny
The Canterville Ghost

and stretching WAY back: Wings. (Silent classic)

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:26pm

Stage Door, All About Eve and of course, It's a Wonderful Life.

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:29pm

From Here to Eternity
Suddenly Last Summer
I Confess

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#22

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:36pm

Casablanca
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The Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai

Dgrant, I also thought that Welles' cinematography for Othello was great. But the sound on it was so degraded, in spite of the DVD reconstruction. Plus, unless it's opera, I have a serious problem with any white man playing Othello. Even if it is the great Orson.

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#23

re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 6:07pm

Sunset Blvd. (That film is just pure genious)

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 6:09pm

Oh - how could I forget Sunset Boulevard? I adore that movie!

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re: Favorite B&W movie?

Posted: 11/4/04 at 6:48pm

Didn't Wings win the very first Best Picture Academy Award?

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