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