Premium Member Mark Kenfield Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 Hey guys, I'm wanting to delve into the world of black and white, and was wondering if anyone had recommendations for any particularly exquisite looking pictures that I should look at?Cheers,Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Theres alot to choose from .. but I always liked Room at the Top.. 1959.. DOP Freddie Francis.. good book and film too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hasson Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Grapes of Wrath was one of my first B&W experiences. Will always love that film. And if I'm talking about a Gregg Toland shot film I might as well throw in Wuthering Heights & Citizen Kane. More recent B&W pictures, I'd say Nolan's, Following. Nebraska is also a good film. Recently I watched Blue Jay on Netflix. Such a great watch. Good use of B&W but also a very well told story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Black Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Eraserhead The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari Vampyr Nosferatu Der Golem The Silence The Seventh Seal Persona Hour of the Wolf Winter Light Through a glass darkly Love is colder than death La Jette Probably lots more I can't think of right now... Freya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 Oh wow this could become a very long list! Some not yet mentioned: Sunrise Out of the past The night of the hunter Andrei Rublev More recently: The man who wasn't there Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Salim Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 'Schindler's list' 'The Elephant Man' 'Psycho' 'Touch of Evil' just to name 4 ! John S :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Easily 12 Angry Men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 The Fugitive (John Ford's film), Out of the Past, I Know Where I'm Going, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Psycho, I Am Cuba... for starters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill DiPietra Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 Anything by Arthur C. Miller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 Man With a Movie Camera Citizen Kane The Long Voyage Home How Green Was My Valley The Grapes of Wrath Fort Apache Seven Samurai Yojimbo Ikiru Ivan's Childhood Winter Light Persona 8 1/2 12 Angry Men The Cranes Are Flying In Cold Blood Ida 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Mark Kenfield Posted February 22, 2017 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 Thanks everyone, that's certainly plenty to get me started. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kanehann Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 The Third Man directed by Carol Reed, DoP Robert Krasker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 I'm surprised nobody mentioned 'Third Man' until now... I'd have to put it right next to 'Citizen Kane' as two of my favorite B&W movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted February 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2017 I mentioned it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Rumble Fish was also great.. maybe not count as it had some colored fish at the end.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Yes, I loved Rumblefish, and I don't think that the colored fish discount it. Mark wants to be provoked to see pictures...maybe stills should be included... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Mark Kenfield Posted February 23, 2017 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2017 Rumble Fish was also great.. maybe not count as it had some colored fish at the end.. I was so pumped for Rumble Fish, but couldn't get more than 30 minutes through it before I gave up. I think I've got something against 50s Americana - I couldn't make it past the first half hour of American Graffiti either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Mark Kenfield Posted February 23, 2017 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2017 Stills would be glorious though! (thanks for the suggestion Gregg). I'm particularly keen on dark, gritty looking ones. And ones that made good use of B&W contrast filters. Anything that looks like Tri-X would be mint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted February 23, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2017 "Pi" - I think that was actually shot in Tri-X reversal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E Clark Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Stills would be glorious though! (thanks for the suggestion Gregg). I'm particularly keen on dark, gritty looking ones. And ones that made good use of B&W contrast filters. Anything that looks like Tri-X would be mint. If you are looking for grit, and B&W then I'd point you to say Val Lewton produced films, such as "Cat People"(1942) You can also take a gander at Julius Dassin's pre exile works in the late forties, with "Naked City"(1948) and for his exile works, "Rififi"(1955). My personal favorite being "Ποτέ την Κυριακή"(1960 aka "Never on a Sunday") (if ever I was going to be a youthful fan/groupie... it would have been for Melina Mercouri...) Another gritty film would be "Psycho"(1960). Ok... maybe not as 'gritty' as some of the others... Edited February 23, 2017 by John E Clark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfried E. Keil Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Pi was shot on Eastman Plus-X 7276, Tri-X 7278, if we can trust the data at imdb. But I also remember that Aronofsky told in an interview that he had shoot on both b/w reversel Kodak stocks. I will post my favourites later this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted February 23, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2017 Some of the old movies that we think of as being high-contrast b&w over the decades only look that way because they were duped many generations or transferred to video from a print, and now if they get restored from the original negative, look much lower in contrast. Anyway, the b&w movies shot by Stanley Cortez such as "Night of the Hunter", "Shock Corridor", and "The Naked Kiss" have a pretty contrasty lighting style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 While I have a bunch of black&white fans in one place; Do you feel any aspects or techniques in cinematography had been lost with the introduction of color? For example I once heard someone say horror movies are scarier in black and white but I never really dug for their reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Mark Kenfield Posted February 23, 2017 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2017 "Pi" - I think that was actually shot in Tri-X reversal. If you are looking for grit, and B&W then I'd point you to say Val Lewton produced films, such as "Cat People"(1942) You can also take a gander at Julius Dassin's pre exile works in the late forties, with "Naked City"(1948) and for his exile works, "Rififi"(1955). My personal favorite being "Ποτέ την Κυριακή"(1960 aka "Never on a Sunday") (if ever I was going to be a youthful fan/groupie... it would have been for Melina Mercouri...) Another gritty film would be "Psycho"(1960). Ok... maybe not as 'gritty' as some of the others... Brilliant! Thank you guys (and Freya!), you're a treasure trove :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfried E. Keil Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Here my favorites (many of them were still mentioned): The cabinett of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari) DE 1919 Robert Wiene, DP Willy Hameister Nosferatu (Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) DE 1922 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, DP Fritz A. Wagner The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) DE 1924 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, DP Karl Freund, Robert Baberske Faust (Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) DE 1926 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, DP Carl Hoffmann Metropolis DE 1927 Fritz Lang DP Karl Freund, Günther Rittau Man with a Movie Camera (Celovek S Kinoapparatom) SU 1929 Dsiga Vertov, DP Michail Kaufman M (M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) DE 1931 Fritz Lang, DP Fritz Arno Wagner La Grande Illusion FR 1937 Jean Renoir, DP Christian Matras, Claude Renoir Daybreak (Le jour se lève) FR 1939 Marcel Carné, DP Curt Courant The Maltese Falcon US 1941 John Huston, DP Arthur Edeson Citizen Kane US 1941 Orson Welles, DP Gregg Toland Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) FR 1946 Jean Cocteau, DP Henri Alekan The Lady from Shanghai US 1947 Orson Welles DP, Charles Lawton Jr. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) IT Vittorio De Sica, DP Carlo Montuori The Third Man GB 1950 Carol Reed, DP Robert Krasker Rashomon JP 1950 Akira Kurosawa, DP Kazuo Miyagawa Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) JP 1953 Akira Kurosawa, DP Asaichi Nakaie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) Schweden 1956 Ingmar Bergman, DP Gunnar Fischer Touch of Evil US 1958 Orson Welles, DP Russell Metty The Devil`s Commandment aka Lust of Vampire (I Vampiri) IT 1958 Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava, DP Mario Bava Breathless (A Boute de Souffle) FR 1960 Jean-Luc Godard, DP Raoul Coutard Black Sunday – Waking the Undead aka The Mask of Satan (La maschera del demonio) IT 1960 Mario Bava, DP Mario Bava La Notte IT/FR 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni, DP Gianni Di Venanzo The Hustler US 1961 Robert Rossen, DP Eugen Schüfftan Yojimbo JP 1961 Akira Kurosawa, DP Kazuo Miyakawa Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) SE 1961 Ingmar Bergman, DP Sven Nykvist The Trial (Le procès) FR/IT/DE 1962 Orson Welles, DP Edmond Richard The Silence (Tystnaden) SE 1963 Ingmar Bergman, DP Sven Nykvist Il Demonio, IT/FR 1963, Brunello Rondi, DP Carlo Bellero Persona SE 1966 Ingmar Bergman, DP Sven Nykvist Raging Bull US 1980 Martin Scorsese, DP Michael Chapman Down By Law US/DE 1986 Jim Jarmusch, DP Robby Müller Dead Man US/JP/DE 1995 Jim Jarmusch, DP Robby Müller La Haine FR 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz, DP Pierre Aïm Pi US 1998 Darren Aronofsky, DP Matthew Libatique Home From Home (Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht) DE/FR 2013 Edgar Reitz, DP Gernot Roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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