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Bishop_Hastur posted...

Cheyenne is great. I basically leave my TV tuned to the western station. Here's my question, have you seen Cowboy In Africa? And if so where can I watch it, cause I like the premise of it, but I'm having a heck of a time finding it anywhere.

Google says that Roku might or might not have it, I can't even access the Roku website so I can't verify it.

Yes. Many colour films from the 50's & even 60's look dreadful compared to their B&W cousins.

Sure. 12 Angry Men and To Kill A Mockingbird are both good. And I also like Plan 9 From Outer Space due to sheer cheese.

CITIZEN MF'n KANE

c'mon now, here in Xanadu

I'd always heard of The Seventh Seal, but had never seen it. I eventually had to watch it for a film class and I found it a profound watch. Max von Sydow is incredible in it. I highly recommend it.

not necessarily because they're black and white but I do like a bunch of b&w movies, but that was because of their overall quality.

Henry_Townsend posted...

I'd always heard of The Seventh Seal, but had never seen it. I eventually had to watch it for a film class and I found it a profound watch. Max von Sydow is incredible in it. I highly recommend it.

Yeah, Ingmar Bergman is considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time.

I already have a hard time watching anything movie that I don't think I could watch a black and white film...

Hard to believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but the original King Kong. Son of Kong isn't as good, but still a fun watch.

Others not mentioned :
The big 3 silent film comedians - Chaplin (Great Dictator was mentioned), Keaton and Lloyd
Ray Harryhausen works - Mighty Joe Young, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth
Them! - first and best of the "big bug" films of the 1950s (Tarantula is good, too)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Freaks

I also enjoy old bad sci-fi / horror, so will watch stuff like The Giant Claw, The Deadly Mantis, The Giant Gila Monster, The Killer Shrews, whether standalone or through MST3K / Rifftrax / Svengoolie.

More modern :
Ed Wood
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

MLBloomy posted...

Hard to believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but the original King Kong. Son of Kong isn't as good, but still a fun watch.

Others not mentioned :
The big 3 silent film comedians - Chaplin (Great Dictator was mentioned), Keaton and Lloyd
Ray Harryhausen works - Mighty Joe Young, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth
Them! - first and best of the "big bug" films of the 1950s (Tarantula is good, too)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Freaks

I also enjoy old bad sci-fi / horror, so will watch stuff like The Giant Claw, The Deadly Mantis, The Giant Gila Monster, The Killer Shrews, whether standalone or through MST3K / Rifftrax / Svengoolie.

More modern :
Ed Wood
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

The original King Kong is all the more amazing once you realize all the hard work that went into the vfx for that film, all without CGI.

A lot of the old Universal Monsters are too silly for me, but I do like Bride of Frankenstein (despite the initial silliness of showing tiny people trapped in jars), and also Dracula's Daughter, which I consider to be a better film than the original Legosi Dracula.

Yup.

I'm a big fan of some of the older horror movies like "The Haunting" "Last Man on Earth" and "The Innocents"

I have no issues if a movie is black and white, some absolute gems from back then.

Paragon21XX posted...

I'm sticking modern black and white films in the same bucket as Justice League: Justice is Gray: a completely unnecessary stylistic choice with no narrative value (Pleasantville excepted of course).

I find this take silly, given the existence of films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and The Lighthouse.

Yes, I much prefer to watch a film in its original black and white rather than a colorized version. But I do find the colorization technology to be fascinating.

2001mark posted...

Yes. Many colour films from the 50's & even 60's look dreadful compared to their B&W cousins.

Often times this is because cheaper processes like Eastmancolor really took off around this time, and the dye-based prints fade over time if they aren't archived on longer-lasting stock (or digitized). They can fade alarmingly fast if they aren't stored properly. It's a major reason why The Wizard of Oz looks a lot more lush and vibrant than, say, Jaws. The technicolor prints from the 1930's are much more stable, though preserving them does come with its own set of challenges.

Toonstrack posted...

Those are great.

Night of the hunter is good.

The third man is pretty interesting. I've got more on the list

I like Night of the Hunter

All About Eve

Raging Bull is great.

I like several black and white films.
50's House on Haunted Hill is one of my favorite horror movies.

https://youtu.be/bLEFqhS5WmI

I wouldn't say I like them but they don't bother me and some movies benefit from it

Rebecca (Hitchcock) is good but it pissed me off how shitty they were to Rebecca

i like them. its very special to still have memories in media from when the world was black and white. the colour invention has spoiled us

sure, Coming to America and The Notebook are pretty good movies.

Henry_Townsend posted...

I'd always heard of The Seventh Seal, but had never seen it. I eventually had to watch it for a film class and I found it a profound watch. Max von Sydow is incredible in it. I highly recommend it.

Great movie

RasterGraphic posted...

I like several black and white films.
50's House on Haunted Hill is one of my favorite horror movies.

That's a good one too.

Diabolique

Other than twilight zone i can't say i really watch them on the regular.

gator71 posted...

Rebecca (Hitchcock) is good but it pissed me off how shitty they were to Rebecca

Rebecca was no peach, as she deliberately attempted to provoke her husband into murdering her, thus ruining him (she was also terminally ill, and therefore had nothing to lose by being murdered). Their marriage was only for appearances (he was loaded and needed a wife to maintain his status) and she was actually in love with another man.

The new wife (the main character of the film) damn sure didn't deserve such rotten treatment from Mrs. Danvers, but that's why the latter is one of classic film's greatest antagonists. I think the husband's treatment of her was also less than ideal, but given the highly unusual circumstances he was dealing with, it's not difficult to rationalize why he was that way. The movie does at least end on a hopeful note that the two can FINALLY live a peaceful life as husband and wife without the specter of Rebecca (and Mrs. Danvers) complicating matters.

I neglected to mention some of my favorite Black and White films in my earlier post, so here goes:

Rebecca (I commented for a reason lol)
Cabin in the Sky
Metropolis
City Lights
You Can't Take it With You
La Strada
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
High Noon
Sergeant York
Arsenic and Old Lace

I liked the old screwball comedies (well, the well executed ones, anyway)

In a metaphorical way, Rebecca is like a malevolent ghost in a horror movie.

Some of my favorites not yet mentioned:
Intolerance (1916)
Our Hospitality (1920)
The Kid (1921)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Freshman (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Sunrise (1927)
The Kid Brother (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
White Heat (1949)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Harakiri (1962)
High and Low (1963)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)

El_Marsh posted...

Rebecca (I commented for a reason lol)

Oh I meant the new wife when I said how they treated her, I just got the names mixed up! It has been a few years since I saw it, thanks for the reminder.

Just watched Hundreds of Beavers to gain more B&W cred.

The Public Enemy
White Heat
The Roaring Twenties
Abbott & Costello movies

City Lights

Just remembered another great one.

Hard to Be a God

I recommend this whenever I can, but it's hard to recommend. It's long, weird, meandering, gross, and violent. It is incredible, though, if you can get on its wavelength.

Yes.

Vampyr
The Monster That Challenged The World
The Giant Behemoth
He Walked By Night
White Zombie
Woman on the Run
Cat People
Curse of the Demon
Casablanca
The Narrow Margin
Brute Force
Gun Crazy
The Seventh Cross
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
In A Lonely Place
Action in the North Atlantic

KFHEWUI posted...

Vampyr
The Monster That Challenged The World
The Giant Behemoth
He Walked By Night
White Zombie
Woman on the Run
Cat People
Curse of the Demon
Casablanca
The Narrow Margin
Brute Force
Gun Crazy
The Seventh Cross
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
In A Lonely Place
Action in the North Atlantic

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