Favorite b/w movies

I'm pretty sure Stalker is in colour, with the "home" sequences at the beginning and end in black and white (or is it sepia?)

The colour is very washed-out in places, like a watercolour painting. Combined with Tarkovsky's trademark very slow-moving camera, this is film as pure art and is an extraordinary piece of film-making.
 
The Battleship Potemkin
The Big Sleep
Strangers on a Train
12 Angry Men
Friday Night & Saturday Morning
The Loneliness of the long distance runner
The Third Man

....too many others to list.

I actually PREFER films in b/w - I can't articulate why though!
 
If Schindler's List is in, then so is Sin City :D

have to nod at some of those that have been up already;

Some Like It Hot
Clerks
The Third Man
Seven Samourai
The Elephant Man
Psycho
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull

and nobody seems to have mentioned

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 
And superior in every way.

Incidentally, I see they're bringing out a special edition of "Titanic". The special features include an "alternative ending"

What, the ship doesn't sink...?
 
I studied alot of these films at university. A couple of favorites were Double Indemnity and It's a Wonderful Life. Sadly, after studying the films in so much detail, you can't watch them in the same way again.

One major thing is I can't watch 'It's a Wondeful Life' without thinking of 'Gremlins' and vice versa. We were shown how Speilberg used a very similar backdrop - small town, lead guy looking to get out, christmas etc (it's more detailed then that, but those are the basics) :D
 
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