Black and White Movies

[Smitho]

I have a question for our American cousins, in modern movies loads of characters sit and watch black and white movies, especially in love films, I have only ever watch one black and white movie in my life (casablanca), now I realise everything is not true in movies, so I was wondering, if you are American do you watch B&W? what about other nationalities?

 

[justsimon]

Yes, I watch black and white movies.

 

[NineOfClubs]

It's just that many of the classics are in B & W.

If you want to see them, that's the way they are...

 

[hungrybrownbear]

Yup, I loved the Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Boulevard, Dial M for Murder.....

ooh. 12 Angry Men!!!

Wasn't Schindler's List in b/w too?

 

[SonOfSlobone]

Yup, I loved the Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, Sunset Boulevard, Dial M for Murder.....

ooh. 12 Angry Men!!!

Wasn't Schindler's List in b/w too?

Dial M for Murder was in color!

Maybe your TV set needs adjusting?

 

[gsdx]

Wasn't Schindler's List in b/w too?

Except for the little girl, yes. . . I believe so.

I know some people who refuse to watch B&W movies. One won't even try no matter how good the movie is. In his mind, if it's B&W, it just has to be bad.

 

[CuriousMonkey]

Modern classics to, like Pi, Eraserhead, Clerks, Sin City ...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I love Brief Encounter and Metropolis more than most color movies.

 

[Cactusjack47]

Some of the greatest movies of all time are in B&W. I love anything with Humphrey Bogart in it. Also love some of the classic Christmas flicks such as Christmas in Connecticut, It's a Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife, and A Christmas Carol.

 

[JB1986]

Quite a few of my favorite film are in black and white. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of my all-time favorite films. I also own the 1933 version of "King Kong," "It's A Wonderful Life," "Miracle On 34th Street," "Frankenstein," "The Bride Of Frankenstein," and "Psycho." I hate when people say they won't watch a movie if it's in black and white. They're seriously depriving themselves of some great films.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

Dial M for Murder was in color!

Maybe your TV set needs adjusting?

Oh, whoopsies. I was thinking about M, and wrote Dial M.

:]

 

[josher]

I watch Turner Classic Movies all the time.

They show all the classic black and white films.

 

[ViennaExpat83]

I watch quite a lot of B&W movies. A lot of greatest films ever made are B&W. People who flat out refuse to watch movies because they are B&W are complete morons.

I don't think many people routinely watch many B&W movies. The are many scenes in color movies where characters watch B&W movies because film directors, who make these (color) movies are obviously familiar with the great movies of the past so some will "stick them in" a scene of their films to kind of "quote" the classics or just because they feel affection toward the classics.

In the last month I watched 2 great B&W movies:
-- Yojimbo, by Akira Kurosawa
-- The Apartment, by Billy Wilder

 

[MisterMajestic]

B&W movies gave birth to the Great "One Liners"...

Oscar winners Bette Davis & Sydney Portier ROCK in the B&W days...

 

[andysayshi]

How about the great "half and half" movie - The Wizard Of Oz. Kansas is B&W, but Oz is in colour!

Imagine never seeing Citizen Kane? Or To Kill A Mockingbird?

 

[just_mills]

Yeah, Black & White flicks are all right..

 

[pausanias_usa]

It's generational.

Older people (raised on b&w tvs) don't mind, but young people (who have known nothing but color) sneer at black and white.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

^ I'm young and I love black and white films.

 

[Adrock-JD]

There are some great films that were printed in B&W.

Psycho
Born Yesterday
Mildred Pierce
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
It's A Wonderful Life
The Last Picture Show...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__T3WJVmBY8[/ame]

 

[ThomasTwo]

Black and white movies are fantastic! The Heiress, All About Eve, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf are all excellent movies.