Favorite Black & White Film

[maya]

some like it hot

Love that one... Marilyn's best IMO- no matter what the critics say...
Apart from the first 5 minutes, the film is flawless... And still very funny

There's a lot of non-english language B/W films which are stunning aswell:
Orphee- france
The Seventh Seal- sweden
Lake Of The Dead- norway
Hiroshima, Mon Amour- france
Ordet- denmark
early Kurosawa fims- Japan

Loads of american/british film noir aswell, unfortunately can't recall any titles...
Double Indemnity? Featuring Bogart- that was pretty good...

 

[Dillinger4]

I liked Some Like it Hot, but I liked The Misfits far far more

 

[colbhoy]

Some Like it Hot for me.

Honourable mention for 12 Angry Men.

 

[Leica]

Double Indemnity? Featuring Bogart- that was pretty good...

Double Indemnity is a fine movie, but Bogart wasn't in it

 

[Dillinger4]

You know, before I ever saw Marilyn Monroe in a film, I wondered what all the fuss was about.

But now I know!

*phew*

 

[maya]

Double Indemnity is a fine movie, but Bogart wasn't in it

That's what I thought- wrong film, then

 

[Groucho]

Nosferatu
or
The Cabinet if Dr Caligari
or
Metropolis
or
Pandoras Box
or
Svankmeyers' Alice
or
Frankenstein
or
Faust

 

[Groucho]

High Noon

 

[Groucho]

The Wolfman
or
King Creole
or
The Wild One

 

[Groucho]

The Blue Angel
or
Rebecca
or
Fantomas
or
Les Vampires




heeeelp, it's got me again

 

[Dillinger4]

This is not even a Black & White film at all, but I want to mention The Black Narcissus (I just caught the end of it on Film4, but I have seen it a few times before).

I mention it because it just has that dreamy feel to it, like being trapped inside the psychotic nightmare of a comatose and horny nun.

 

[Leica]

Svankmeyers' Alice

That's a colour movie

 

[goldenecitrone]

Casanegra. Closely followed by Kind hearts and trombones.

 

[Elvis Parsley]

Battle of Algiers

 

[Leica]

That's what I thought- wrong film, then

Which one is it then? Got any more clues?

 

[Dillinger4]

Battle of Algiers

 

[skunkboy69]

The Ladykillers

 

[mentalchik]

This is not even a Black & White film at all, but I want to mention The Black Narcissus (I just caught the end of it on Film4, but I have seen it a few times before).

I mention it because it just has that dreamy feel to it, like being trapped inside the psychotic nightmare of a comatose and horny nun.

I like that film a lot, has a good atmospheric feeling of repression and isolation........beautiful location too !

 

[Dillinger4]

I like that film a lot, has a good atmospheric feeling of repression and isolation........beautiful location too !

I think even though it is in technicolour, it represents a lost age of film.

 

[Groucho]

That's a colour movie

It is a colour film, yes and what's more it most certainly is not in black and white.

Dr Caligari and Fantomas also had tinted frames and were not black and white either.

Anyway...now I'm back in this bloody thread I can't leave without posting...

Battleship Potempkin
Strike
October

(Although all b/w films Eisenstein personally painted the red flag red frame by frame on early versions of BP)

 

[Groucho]

I agree with
La Haine and Battle of Algiers

 

[Dillinger4]

is The Conformist black & white? I can't remember

 

[django]

Not seen La Haine but just noticed it got a very nice DVD release in the US. Think I'll have that.

 

[vogonity]

is The Conformist black & white? I can't remember

Colour, I'm afraid - but with the most extraordinary monochrome scene: Giulia in a black and white striped dress dancing in a black and white room with white light streaming through venetian blinds... Magnificent!

 

[Dillinger4]

Colour, I'm afraid - but with the most extraordinary monochrome scene: Giulia in a black and white striped dress dancing in a black and white room with white light streaming through venetian blinds... Magnificent!

Ahh thats why it registers as Black & White in my mind!

 

[lobster]

in Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod by Alexander Kluge

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Sweet Smell of Success
The Last Picture Show
Paper Moon
Grapes of Wrath
La Haine
12 Angry Men
Elephant Man
Lenny
most Charlie Chaplin films
most Marx Bros films
loads more...

Charlie Chaplin, how did i forget? Good list imo

specially the "loads more" category

keep on watching kind of ting eh....

 

[FunkyUK]

Clerks, LaHaine,

 

[killer b]

i very much liked kurusawa's 'stray dog'

 

[alef]

Double Indemnity is a fine movie, but Bogart wasn't in it

Two of Bogart's best films are The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon, probably one of them? I'll add The Big Sleep to my list, has fantastic dialogue and is my favourite film noir.