BLACK AND WHITE FILMS - YEAH or NEIGH?

[kirklancaster]

I think some of the greatest films ever made were in 'Black and White'. Four of my favourites are:

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE:

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HIGH NOON:

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THE THIRD MAN:

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And - CASABLANCA:

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Do you watch 'Black and Whites'? If so, which are your favourites?

[GiRTh]

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[kirklancaster]

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Woah - absolutely brilliant. Yeah, another favourite of mine.

[Locke.]

I'd prefer colour but if there's a film I want to see I wouldn't be put off because it was black and white (Raging Bull, Clerks, I'm Not There, etc)

[GiRTh]

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Could have picked any Billy Wilder film from Sunset Boulevard to Some like it Hot to the Apartment but Ace in the hole is probably my fave.

[smudgie]

Mrs Minniver.:love:

[LaLaLand]

They're my fav. I love "It's a Wonderful Life" especially and old Hitchcock movies, the black and white adds to the atmosphere.

[Ammi]

..as well as all of the horrors..To Kill a Mocking Bird, All About Eve, Psycho, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Sunset Boulevard...The Apartment...:lovedup:...

[rubymoo]

You can't beat Laurel and Hardy, and Charlie Chaplin in black and white:hee:

[rubymoo]

..as well as all of the horrors..To Kill a Mocking Bird, All About Eve, Psycho, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Sunset Boulevard...The Apartment...:lovedup:...

To kill a Mockingbird is excellent.

Not to forget Of Mice and Men, as well as Scrooge (the one with Alister Sim).

[Kazanne]

This is the only horror movie that ever really gave me the creeps,I like this version much more than the new one,it's just really spooky and the black and white adds to that.
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[Jamie89]

..as well as all of the horrors..To Kill a Mocking Bird, All About Eve, Psycho, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Sunset Boulevard...The Apartment...:lovedup:...

I was gonna say Psycho and The Birds too.

Also King Kong, and probably others I can't think of. Doesn't really bother me if they're black and white if they're good.

[rubymoo]

The Fly.....i watched it when i was around 11 years old and it scared me to death!

Also The Elephant Man.....excellent film!

[Kazanne]

The Fly.....i watched it when i was around 11 years old and it scared me to death!

Also The Elephant Man.....excellent film!

Oh,I like The Elephant man too Ruby.good film

[joeysteele]

I love black and white films, then again I prefer actors and actresses from that time too, the likes of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

So many films I love from that era.
I am sure I was born the wrong time, I should have been born decades ago,as a good amount of modern stuff,as to singers, actresses/actors,to me anyway, I feel have less talent.

[jennyjuniper]

I do like black and white. My four favourites are

Brief Encounter
Psycho
Shall We Dance (The original Japenese version)
Rafifi.

[joeysteele]

I was gonna say Psycho and The Birds too.

Also King Kong, and probably others I can't think of. Doesn't really bother me if they're black and white if they're good.

The original King Kong is great Kazanne.
I watch it but cannot get the atmosphere of the updated version that I can for the black and white original.

[Suze]

I love black and white films, wish most of the newer ones were made in black and white and with some half decent actors as in the black and whites, but then I also prefer black and white photography.

[Jamie89]

The original King Kong is great Kazanne.
I watch it but cannot get the atmosphere of the updated version that I can for the black and white original.

Ok this is the second time in a week that someone has mistaken me for Kaz :laugh: I'm going to develop an identity disorder soon!

But yeah the original is great :love: Although I do still love the one that Peter Jackson did too

[Kazanne]

Ok this is the second time in a week that someone has mistaken me for Kaz :laugh: I'm going to develop an identity disorder soon!

But yeah the original is great :love: Although I do still love the one that Peter Jackson did too

i'ts not a bad thing Jamie :joker:

[James]

Some of my favourite black and white films I can think of are 12 Angry Men, Rebecca, The Killing, Dr Strangelove and The Elephant Man.

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12 Angry Men.

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Rebecca.

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The Killing.

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Dr Strangelove.

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The Elephant Man.

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[Kazanne]

Love 'Rebecca ' too

[Xtopher]

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane <3

[kirklancaster]

Ok this is the second time in a week that someone has mistaken me for Kaz :laugh: I'm going to develop an identity disorder soon!

But yeah the original is great :love: Although I do still love the one that Peter Jackson did too

Well, you are both blond and beautiful. :laugh:

[kirklancaster]

You don't all know how chuffed I am that I'm not the only lover of Black and Whites, and I'm amazed at so many of your choices being among my favourites.

Twelve Angry Men is an absolute masterpiece, ditto Baby Jane and so many of the others - some I had even forgot.

[James]

You can watch all the films I mentioned on Youtube, I noticed there. :unsure:

[Livia]

Twelve Angry Men is a brilliant film. I love anything with Bette Davis in it, Ealing comedies, British films made during the war like In Which We Serve, Went The Day Well and This Happy Breed (although I think that was in colour). I really like the old silent films too... all the comics, Buster Keaton, Chaplin of course, and the Fritz Lang classics Nosferatu and Metropolis.

[Toy Soldier]

... If it was made before "Back To The Future" then I'm afraid it just leaves me cold. That film was in fact the birth of cinema. A genuine masterpiece.

[joeysteele]

Ok this is the second time in a week that someone has mistaken me for Kaz :laugh: I'm going to develop an identity disorder soon!

But yeah the original is great :love: Although I do still love the one that Peter Jackson did too

Aah sincerest apologies, I read Kazanne's post then got to yours and thought I was still on hers.
Really sorry Jamie,genuine error.:blush:

As it happens Kazanne is one of the truly nicest people on here as to 'most things' so you are in good company.

[kirklancaster]

Aah sincerest apologies, I read Kazanne's post then got to yours and thought I was still on hers.
Really sorry Jamie,genuine error.:blush:

As it happens Kazanne is one of the truly nicest people on here as to 'most things' so you are in good company.

:laugh: No need to apologise to him Joey - he went from Liam to Jamie -- No wonder we get confused.

(Just kidding Jamie :kiss:)

[joeysteele]

Twelve Angry Men is a brilliant film. I love anything with Bette Davis in it, Ealing comedies, British films made during the war like In Which We Serve, Went The Day Well and This Happy Breed (although I think that was in colour). I really like the old silent films too... all the comics, Buster Keaton, Chaplin of course, and the Fritz Lang classics Nosferatu and Metropolis.

Awesome actress, when I watch her films I do so in total silence, love how she can make you hate her in some, feel really sad for her, as in 'The Old maid' film and 'Dark Victory' and then also really love her too.

Twelve Angry Men is also a great film but then Henry Fonda is a great actor too.
Those kind of films were pure class.

[arista]

The Best one is that Davin Niven War Film
in Technicolor
but in Heaven its B/W

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[Ammi]

..it wasn't a black and white but one of my dad's favourite movies was Zulu...he always asked on Christmas Day, what time it would be on so that he could time his snoozes around it...and Great Escape was also a huge favourite of his, hence us having the theme music to that at his funeral...


...with Bette Davis...one of the greatest and most romantic lines in any movie was Now Voyager and...Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon...we have the stars..that whole scene is one of my all time favourite movie scenes...:lovedup:..

[Ammi]

The Best one is that Davin Niven War Film
in Technicolor
but in Heaven its B/W

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81eVGeekT1L._SY679_.jpg

..yeah, an amazing movie, Arista...a bit like a religious discussion in SD as well...

[joeysteele]

..it wasn't a black and white but one of my dad's favourite movies was Zulu...he always asked on Christmas Day, what time it would be on so that he could time his snoozes around it...and Great Escape was also a huge favourite of his, hence us having the theme music to that at his funeral...


...with Bette Davis...one of the greatest and most romantic lines in any movie was Now Voyager and...Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon...we have the stars..that whole scene is one of my all time favourite movie scenes...:lovedup:..



From being 14,even I fill up with tears at that ending.:laugh:

[jennyjuniper]

Talking of Bette Davies. 'Another Man's Poison' was also a favourite, mainly because it was filmed at Malham Tarn near where I come from.
Also Dr. Strangelove and Arsenic and Old Lace and The Lavender Hill Mob with the wonderful Alec Guiness.

[Suze]

Another Bette Davis fan here, love most of her films.

Also no-one could deliver a line like Bette with such sarcastic wit :D

[Livia]

The Best one is that Davin Niven War Film
in Technicolor
but in Heaven its B/W

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81eVGeekT1L._SY679_.jpg

Brilliant film, arista. Love David Niven.

[Livia]

...with Bette Davis...one of the greatest and most romantic lines in any movie was Now Voyager and...Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon...we have the stars..that whole scene is one of my all time favourite movie scenes...:lovedup:..

I've just posted that very quote on your wall.

Citizen Kane has got to be up there with the greats. Someone's already mentioned Mrs Miniver, another classic. The Bells Go Down with Tommy Trinder, To Kill and Mocking Bird, Hobson's Choice (anything with John Mills in it is good), Casablanca of course. Grapes of Wrath, Some Like It Hot... the list is endless.

[Vanessa]

I don't watch many black and white movies, but i do have some Laurel and Hardy dvds. I get them out when i need cheering up. :laugh:

[Livia]

Laurel and Hardy... still brilliantly funny after all this time.

[Kizzy]

Charlie Chaplin for me :love:

[Vanessa]

Charlie Chaplin for me :love:

I love that as well. :laugh: