What are the best Black and White movies of all time?
Let's remember "It's a Wonderful Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrzjGCi3gY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyv19bg0scg
Nosfuratu (the complete movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzubFvBsA
and Metropolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ffa3Qa4ah4
I know you mentioned the 50's but there are some great older movies too. I'll stop at three to give others a chance but I could probably do 20 on my own.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/
Angela Lansbury is awesomely frightening in this film.
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1. Schindler's List (Spielberg)...truly a masterpiece, and great choice by Spielberg to do this modern film in black and white.
2. Psycho (Hitchcock)...the fact that it's in black and white seems to make it even more terrifying. The black blood is an image that sticks with you.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird...great example of a film that can live up to a spectacular novel.
4. The Bicycle Thief...This is an Italian film from the late 40s. It's a simple story about a man who loses his bike, but it becomes something so much more. One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.
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American Film Institute
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I'll choose one old and one new!
Bringing Up Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9uUJQRzh4k
and Young Frankenstein
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It was in black and white, and color!
In memory of Mickey Carroll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZULpr8m5o
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Casablana
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
Twelve Angry Men
I could go on, but we'd be here all day . :)
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Here are some more suggestions:
- "Force of Evil": Great noir film about the numbers racket
- "Sweet Smell of Success": Featuring an EPIC performance from Burt Lancaster as an insidious newspaper columnist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZdXzSz07qU
- "Laura": Another terrific noir, this one starring the beautiful Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb AND a young Vincent Price
- "Treasure of the Sierra Madre": One of the best adventure films ever made, featuring one of Bogart's best performances. (My other fave Bogart is the also black-and-white "In a Lonely Place"). Total classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBqwFQUVB5A
- "Pickup on South Street": Sam Fuller's classic thriller stars the incomperable Richard Widmark as a pickpocket who gets involved in espionage.
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"What are the 39 step?"
Thats Hitchcocks best.
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Kurosawa's High and Low
The Maltese Falcon
Citizen Kane
Fellini's La Strada probably doesn't qualify as noir, but it's a brilliant piece of filmmaking.
And honorable mention, for content more than cinematography:
Billy Wilder's All About Eve
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The Sixth Man - Orson Welles really was a god of media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_SQyCJega8
Kurosawa's Yojimbo (my favorite of his and inspiration for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) and Seven Samurai (considered essential on many movie critic lists. Ikiru is another favorite of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgswymaBuDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uu40a3ANFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mLrLHDdXHI
There have been some great modern black and white films as well, which cannot be discounted.
Schindler's List for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9RbkiafY4
And Aronofsky's Pi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1sZSCz47w
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The first link is the film.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3576946720625071273
The second link is a funny speech.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2go1l_the-great-dictator-charles-chaplin_shortfilms
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Good ones!