Your Candidates for the BEST PHOTOGRAPHED BLACK AND WHITE MOVIES of all time... (1 Viewer)

[Rain]

Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror

Well, if we are allowed to include tinted films as B&W, then I'll add The General.

 

[Rob Lutter]

oh... and I almost forgot...

Lolita

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Seven Samurai
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Raging Bull

 

[Kevin Leonard]

RAGING BULL...nothing compares!!!
However, here are some great other examples of b&w photography:
8 1/2
Seconds
Throne of Blood
Kafka
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Third Man
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Ahhhh, now I wanna go and watch some of these movies...but I can't since most of them aren't here on DVD yet. Bastards!

 

[RayG]

Greed

The Magnificent Ambersons

Great Expectations (1946)

Notorious

The Stranger

Othello (1952)

Touch of Evil

Eraserhead

 

[John Stone]

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Night of the Hunter

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Oliver Twist (Lean)

Citizen Kane

The Long Voyage Home

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Manhattan

The Third Man

Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)

Seven Samurai

Nosferatu

Touch of Evil

Out of the Past

Regards,

 

[Jason Boucher]

I just read that the new Coen Brothers movie was particularly well filmed in black and white using a new method of shooting in color and removing the color. According to the article I read, it creates very unique shadows. Haven't seen it myself. Anybody have any opinions that has seen the movie?

 

[Rob Lutter]

If you want an example... on the Rocky Horror Picture Show dvd... the 3rd branching version has been changed using the same process of removing the color and creating the opening sequence.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

The Rocky Horror stuff was not lit to be photographed black and white so it is more or less just like turning the color all the way down on your set. Probably the most comparable example of something similar to what Roger Deakins did with the Coens is what Seamus Deasy did with John Boorman's "The General". Some video releases of that film were in desaturated color, but it played theatrically in black and white.

Regards,

 

[Rob Tomlin]

I would nominate Paths of Glory as well.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

Seventh Seal (I thought for sure someone would of listed this one by now, Unless I am just missing it)

Black Sunday (Bava)

 

[Brett Cameron]

For recent ones Ed Wood and Schindler's List.