Favorite b/w movies

The Great Dictator, one of the best propaganda pieces ever made - Genius.

To kill a mockingbird - Peck's lead as Atticus Finch is remarkable

Sherlock Holmes and the Pearl of Death - Basil Rathbone at his best

The Dambusters - brilliant engineering.
 
I always feel that Bogarde 'came out' in his own way. At various points throughout his work, he made it clear (at least to those who cared to look) where his sexuality lay. Talking about sex in public, however, would have seemed appalling to someone with Bogarde's fierce sense of privacy, which is why there were no revelations during his lifetime, and no salacious headlines, and not even much newspaper gossip.

You could say he was a skilled media operator. Alternatively, you could say that his talent won him the media's respect and silence. Either way, it would never happen now.
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear)
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves)
Night of the Living Dead
Paths of Glory
This Sporting Life
The Third Man (yeah, it's already been mentioned, but it's damn great)
 
They are both good examples of relatively more recent use of BW.
Anyone for; obscure Russian movies; Alexander Nevsky or Ivan the Terrible. (The later does have a short colour sequence).
; Any Laurel and Hardy movie :)

Never tried to de-colour a colour movie but I have a colourised ( :eek: ) DVD copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and I always turn the colour off. It looks fine then.
 
While we are on time tricks just remembered Passage to Marseille (1944). That is the one with a flashback in a flashback. Directed by Curtiz of course who directed Casablanca and with Bogart playing a similar character and all the usual suspects in the other roles.
 
Definitely. Haven't seen it for ages but Tarkovsky's Stalker is a favourite, and also has a little colour at the end.

Another, more recent, favourite is The Man Who Wasn't There.
 
I don't think it's been mentioned but Goodbye Mr. Chips is a classic. I'd rate it up there with It's a Wonderful Life for a true 'feelgood' film.
 
Definitely. It has a wonderfully sinister atmosphere throughout its several story lines, and an ending that stays in the mind forever. Whatever happened to portmanteau movies? Can 'Pulp Fiction' be called one?
 
Eraserhead, obviously.

Raging Bull
Manhattan
Citizen Kane
Some Like It Hot
Way Out West
The Manchurian Candidate
Dr. Strangelove
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Key Largo
Frankenstein (1931)
Billy Liar
A Matter of Life and Death (even though there are colour bits in it :-)
 
Yes, it's superb. Did you know Robert Redford is planning a remake? He asked someone who belongs to this group --
http://groups.msn.com/ClassicMovies -- to ask its members who to cast.

I don't know if you have to have an account with MSN to join this group, but it's a great place for black-and-white film lovers. The thread about the Random Harvest remake is in Directors -- the Professor is the person who posted Redford's question.
 
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