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Top 10 Monochrome films

not much thought went into this, just a spontaneous blurting out of an exuberant love of black and white films

1. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini's greatest film, imo is also imo the greatest b/w film

2. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer's magnificent silent masterpiece

3. L'Aventurra - Michelangelo Antonioni's smash hit

4. Vivre sa vie - picking just one of a few majestic b/w Godards

5. Veronika Voss - beautiful late Fassbinder

6. Eraserhead - Lynch's one of a kind head trip

7. Eros + Massacre - Yoshishige Yoshida's monumental achievement

8. Archangel - one of my favorite Guy Maddin films

9. Goto, Island of Love - Walerian Borowczyk's first fully live action film is what my mind is thinking of while i watch a Dietrich film ...

10. Shanghai Express - Josef von Sternberg's film starring Marlene Dietrich is what i'm watching now and i just had to pause and do a top 10 of black and white films

edited in more than honorable mentions

● Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi's masterful ghost story

● The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman's delicious chess flick

● Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara's most acclaimed work

● Ivan's Childhood - Tarkovsky's only fully monochrome is a visual treat

● The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir - this is technically the best film i've ever seen, but it ranks much lower on the love scale

● Touch of Evil - Orson Welles' fantastic film noir

● The Third Man - Carol Reed, starring Orson

● Damnation - my favorite Bela Tarr, who specialized in monochrome
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Kwek00 · 41-45, M
You are talking about Black and White movies... and these are all not on the list?

* Das Weisse Band (2009)
* The man who wasn't there (2001)
* The Lighthouse (2019)
* M (1931)
* The Artist (2011)
* Metropolis (1927)
* Pi (1998) <- Beats Eraserhead anny day

🙄
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@SW-User I even forgot Dr. Strangelove: How I stopped worying and learned to love the bomb.

I'm going to whip myself now.


You never saw PI? BLASPHEMY!
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@SW-User

[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo18VIoR2xU]
SW-User
@Kwek00 haha I got to see Singapore Sling sometime!
helenS · 36-40, F
11. "The Golem: How He Came into the World" (1920), early German Expressionism.
SW-User
@helenS i might be getting that soon! :)
helenS · 36-40, F
@SW-User You won't regret!
I liked a film called Suture (1993).
SW-User
@quitwhendone Intriguing, there's an Arrow Video of it, thanks!

 
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