Favorite b/w movies

longest day, anyone
eraserhead, anyone

here's a thought, anyone watch newer films with the colour off ..... as in black and white?
would that be wierd?
 
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Scrooge
An Inspector Calls
Green for Danger
Hue and Cry
Cottage to Let

Actually, anything with Alastair Sim in. (Even St.Trinians).
 
Yes it was on TV a couple of days ago; one of the best British films of its time; particularly poignant and moving as Bogarde himself never really came out either.

Richard
 
How could I ever forget 'Random Harvest' starring Greer Garson & Ronald Coleman. It was such a touching story of a man suffering amnesia who meets & marrys a dance hall girl. He later gets his memory back with life-changing consequences.
Superb & so atmospheric.
 
Just checking everyone was awake :o thank god I said possibly.
The Killing (already mentioned above; Kubrick 1956) also has real time sequences of course; in fact the same times are repeated from the viewpoint of each participant; very clever film.
 
...which was done by Kurosawa in Rashomon six years earlier - not in real time, but the story re-told from different points of view.

The idea has been copied a good few times since, of course, notably in Reservoir Dogs.

EDIT: You might say the same narrative structure was also evident in Citizen Kane, and indeed Kubrick's The Killing was compared to the work of Orson Welles - similar uses of camera work especially.
 
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