The science behind it is optical interpretation of light waves, in some peoples' eyes the B & W interpretation is stronger, in others it is colour. Totally agree on the cars as well. I was at a motor meet last week, mostly big old yank tanks, but I'm always drawn to the small classic Euros, anyway there was a small 70s Fiat 126 resprayed in a custom bronze-orange that looked fantastic. Another Fiat, same model, same age had been resprayed in a very dark, almost brown-purple red and it looked bloody awful to my eyes.Originally Posted by Staun
Generally though I think cars look best in black, blue, green, brown and really bright custom colours and pastels and also in 2-tones or in 2-tone pastels blue/cream and green/cream.
All shades of red, white, silver and purple cars just look wrong to me. For me red cars look like all colour and no car and give me eye strain. White cars just look like sad anonymous blobs and soften all the lines and features far too much.
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Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
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F. W. Murnau for some of the greatest German silents.
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I find all of this to be fascinating. In the 50's I think most cars were two toned. But today, you rarely see a new two tone. Do we now have to account for style and color in different time periods? A PM on the way.
The older I get, the better I was.
Sci-Fi may have been the perfect vehicle for B&W. I just watched a nice print of the original, Not Of This Earth. Very nice. Even the old TV westerns look really really good. Wonder if the old NBC, CBS and ABC used different filming and sound techniques? I know I prefer the sound of the ABC 50's and 60's B&W programs the best.
The older I get, the better I was.
I just watched Fritz Lang's "M" with Peter Lorre from 1931, followed by "The Third Man" with Orson Wells. Both have a storyline that involves cops or military police contrasted with characters from the criminal underworld who both look for Lorre's Child Murderer, and Well's Mr. Lime who sells watered down penicillin to hospitals. Amazing that the main characters in both films, Lorre and Wells, are really not seen or heard from until the end of the movies.
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
Has anyone mentioned The Children's Hour and The Bad Seed? Two creepy kid movies.
The older I get, the better I was.
The Children's Hour was good, but The Bad Seed is a classic!
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
Someone mentioned some, including kind of a blanket-mention of some Fellini, though my #1 Fellini is Juliet of the Spirits, which is not only in colour but glorious colour!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
The prequel "Village of the Damned'" was pretty damn good too!
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
"Some Like It Hot"
"A Night At The Opera"
"Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
An odd collection, sure.
"Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)
"Village of the Damned" was in my opinion the better movie,
I consider "Rashomon" to be even better than "Shichinin no Samurai".
A few that were not mentioned yet:
"M" by Fritz Lang (much better than "Metropolis" and extremely innovative and influential)
"Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa (in my opinion better than "Seven Samurai", though the latter is great as well)
"Repulsion" and "Knife in the Water" by Roman Polanski
"Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton
"Les Jeux Sont Faits" by Jean Delannoy
Not a great movie but a heck of a lot of fun - It, starring Clara Bow. It's a B&W silent. Clara is so gorgeous and vivacious. There's a scene with Clara and a date at an amusement park on rides that I've never seen before.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Fay Wray in the original King Kong was surprisingly dishy.... She had a nice little jiggle
No argument there. I posted the wrong link.on me...
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
Kong thought so toFay Wray in the original King Kong was surprisingly dishy.... She had a nice little jiggle. Hard to get along with but give him credit for that.
The older I get, the better I was.
And one of the epic screams in all of movie history.Fay Wray in the original King Kong was surprisingly dishy.... She had a nice little jiggle
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Excellent List BF, but I did mention M a few posts back. As an ex-pat American, I think that the German language just doesn't translate well to many westerners despite Peter Lorre's superb tortured performance. It's one of my favorite films in either B&W or color.
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
Sorry, I overlooked your mentioning of "M".
I was going to mention Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast but kept thinking it must have been mentioned.
Goddard, Truffault, Fellini (and the rest of the Italians), Fassbinder, Louis Malle (ascensceur pour l'échaffaud, for ex), Jacques Tati, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Gilles Grangier and quite a few others
edit: not sure whether Fassbinder did many B&W movies, though.
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