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
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
