Post subject: Best Visuals (Black & White) in Film History (Mid-Revisi
IN-PROGRESS/MID-REVISION
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927)
Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958)
Faust - F.W. Murnau (1926)
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1960)
The Trial - Orson Welles (1962)
Europa - Lars Von Trier (1991)
Othello - Orson Welles (1952)
Sin City - Roberto Rodriguez / Frank Miller (2005)
Mr. Arkadin - Orson Welles (1955)
Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
Sunrise - F.W. Murnau (1927)
The Scarlett Empress - Josef von Sternberg (1934)
The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles (1942)
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (1987)
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Marketa Lazarova - Frantisek Vliacil (1967)
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini (1963)
Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr (2000)
Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
L' Avventura - Michelangelo Antionini (1960)
Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (1993)
The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1948)
The Man With a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1928)
The Last Laugh - F.W. Murnau (1924)
Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1967)
Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
M - Fritz Lang (1931)
Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
The Phantom Carriage - Victor Sjostrom (1921)
Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein (1925)
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
Satantango - Bela Tarr (1994)
Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte - Robert Aldrich (1965)
Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Eisenstein (1938)
On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky (1962)
Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
L'Age D'Or - Luis Bunuel (1930)
Un Chien Andalou - Luis Bunuel (1929)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich (1971)
Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles (1966)
Manhattan - Woody Allen (1979)
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
Children of Paradise - Marcel Carne (1945)
Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi (1962) Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (1964) The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer (1962)
Earth - Alexander Dovzhenko (1930)
Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau (1922)
Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)
Shame - Ingmar Bergman (1968)
Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937)
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Pi - Darren Aronofsky (1998)
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951)
DEFINITELY - UNDECIDED ON RANKING:
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 - Sergei Eisenstein (1944)
Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? - Robert Aldrich (1962)
POSSIBLY/UNDER CONSIDERATION:
Intolerance - D.W. Griffith (1916)
Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924) [Studio Cut, 140 minutes]
The Crowd - King Vidor (1928)
Crime of Dr Mabuse - Fritz Lang (1932)
Late Spring - Ozu (1949)
Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950)
Limelight - Charlie Chaplin (1952)
Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich (1955)
The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
Black Rain - Shohei Imamura (1988)
The Blue Angel - Josef Von Sternberg (1930)
The Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
L'Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934)
The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock (1935)
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin (1936)
Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937)
Pepe Le Moko - Julien Duvivier (1937)
Stagecoach - John Ford (1939)
The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
Spellbound - Alfred Hitchcock (1945)
Miracle in Milan - Vittorio de Sica (1951)
High Noon - Fred Zinneman (1952)
The Big Heat - Fritz Lang (1953)
La Strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
Ordet - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955)
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford (1962)
Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)
Damnation - Bela Tarr (1989)
Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch (1995) _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
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Post subject: Re: Best Visuals (Black & White) in Film History
Nice list !
AfterHours wrote:
Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr (2000)
This is possibly my favorite entry here, cinematography-wise of course. I remember when watching it for the first time how I kept repeating to myself "the B&W is absolutely beautiful".
Also I recently watched Ucho (The Ear) - Karel Kachyna (1970) and was also impressed by the B&W lighting (most of the movie being set inside a house at night).
Post subject: Re: Best Visuals (Black & White) in Film History
CellarDoor wrote:
Nice list !
This is possibly my favorite entry here, cinematography-wise of course. I remember when watching it for the first time how I kept repeating to myself "the B&W is absolutely beautiful".
Also I recently watched Ucho (The Ear) - Karel Kachyna (1970) and was also impressed by the B&W lighting (most of the movie being set inside a house at night).
Thank you! I haven't seen Ucho (The Ear). How is it overall?
Re: Werckmeister Harmonies ... Yes, Tarr really outdoes himself. For cinematography Id have to side with some others first but WH would be among the very best and even higher than it is here if that was the only possible requisite. _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
Post subject: Re: Best Visuals (Black & White) in Film History
AfterHours wrote:
I haven't seen Ucho (The Ear). How is it overall?
It's excellent. It reminded me of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" set in a paranoid (almost kafkaesque) Prague setting. Recommended ! _________________ I'll be your plastic toy.
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It's excellent. It reminded me of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" set in a paranoid (almost kafkaesque) Prague setting. Recommended !
Sounds interesting, I'll have to give it a go sometime. Thank you.
Btw, in addition to topping this list I would rank Citizen Kane #1 for "cinematography-only" also (definitely the most astonishing example of "emotional/conceptual significance and ingenuity per shot" and the overall extent/depth this is brought to for the entire film). There are more beautiful/mesmerizing-looking films but none in the history of cinema -- color or B & W -- that can touch it in the above parenthetical regard. There also isn't a film anywhere that is even remotely like it in execution/cinematic language and the particular expressions and overwhelming depth it attains through visual (or other) means -- even despite its massive influence across film history. _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
Everything on your list that I've actually seen, maybe about half of them, I would just have to agree with you. You know what I've discovered? Almost all the old Hollywood films that were in black and white are almost all worth watching just because of the black and white visuals l. I don't know why but, for instance, I saw Jezebel recently and it's just worth watching just for the way it looks. I don't know what it is about black and white but it makes you pay attention more for some reason. You pay more attention to the story and whats going on. I don't know, it just makes u focus on it better. Your mind doesn't wander.
Everything on your list that I've actually seen, maybe about half of them, I would just have to agree with you. You know what I've discovered? Almost all the old Hollywood films that were in black and white are almost all worth watching just because of the black and white visuals l. I don't know why but, for instance, I saw Jezebel recently and it's just worth watching just for the way it looks. I don't know what it is about black and white but it makes you pay attention more for some reason. You pay more attention to the story and whats going on. I don't know, it just makes u focus on it better. Your mind doesn't wander.
It's excellent. It reminded me of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" set in a paranoid (almost kafkaesque) Prague setting. Recommended !
Sounds interesting, I'll have to give it a go sometime. Thank you.
Btw, in addition to topping this list I would rank Citizen Kane #1 for "cinematography-only" also (definitely the most astonishing example of "emotional/conceptual significance and ingenuity per shot" and the overall extent/depth this is brought to for the entire film). There are more beautiful/mesmerizing-looking films but none in the history of cinema -- color or B & W -- that can touch it in the above parenthetical regard. There also isn't a film anywhere that is even remotely like it in execution/cinematic language and the particular expressions and overwhelming depth it attains through visual (or other) means -- even despite its massive influence across film history.
You know what I read? That Citizen Kane is the first movie to ever show ceilings in a shot,and I thought that sounded too unbelievable. but every time I watch a movie, im noticing they never show ceilings in a shot. It sounds unbelievable, but I think it's true!!!
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