NAME ALL YOUR FAVE B & W FILMS!

[curiousa2z]

whoot! The Day the Earth Stood Still just started...ta.

 

[Ramen]

I liked all the above films better when they came out in Technicolor.

 

[whisky]

Dr Strangelove
Young Frankenstein
Any Laural and Hardy short
All the Marx brothers films
The Thing from another planet

 

[Tisiphone]

Bringing up Baby
Philadelphia Story
The Bishop's Wife
The Song of Bernadette
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Notorious
Gaslight
Adam's Rib
All About Eve
Cape Fear (the original)
Stage Door
People will Talk
The Uninvited
London After Midnight
Fort Apache
Rio Grande
Red River
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
It Happened One Night

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It Happened One Night was on TCM last night. I can't get over how it's more enjoyable each time I view it. A simple movie that was way ahead of its time in several ways.

 

[Tisiphone]

Rage in Heaven
The Black Swan (this might be in color, though...can't remember)
Jesse James

 

[Tisiphone]

It Happened One Night was on TCM last night. I can't get over how it's more enjoyable each time I view it. A simple movie that was way ahead of its time in several ways.

Claudette Colbert is just so adorable in that movie.

I know I'm forgetting some...Oh!

His Girl Friday

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Thanks to this thread, I'm watching Stage Door right now.

Young Lucille Ball FTW.

 

[Tisiphone]

Is that out on DVD???

Gods, I love the way they talked in old movies, so quick and witty. I remember that movie made me want to be an actress at a boarding house, and Desk Set made me want to work in an office like that. I know, I'm only 30, but my mom raised me on these films, so to me these are way better than the shit that comes out now.

 

[Tisiphone]

The Shop Around the Corner
The Enchanted Cottage
(these all come to me while I'm captioning for some reason)

 

[curiousa2z]

methinks I forgot Adam's Rib & The Philadelphia story.
*snort* And Notorious, fergodsake....


Tisi - totally get you re the dialogue. Gibson Girls (and that's TV - cant think of any new movies )was the closest I've heard with that kind of dialogue.

What? Screenplay writers can't be clever any more?

OK, you BOTH listed Stage Door - haven't seen it! wot's it aboot?

 

[Tisiphone]

^Do you mean Gilmore Girls?

"Stage Door" focuses on the lives of aspiring actresses and dancers/singers in a New York boarding house. Cynical Ginger Rogers (who won't sleep with directors for parts) gets a new roommate, Katharine Hepburn, who comes from a wealthy family but has always wanted to act. She's very confident and aware that she is out of place with the other girls who make fun of her, but she's determined to get a part (minus sleeping with somebody).

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Is that out on DVD???

Stage Door

Stage Door in a Classic Comedy Box Set

Also co-starring the very young Lucille Ball, Eve Arden and Ann Miller. And the never young Adolphe Menjou, and Franklin Pangborn as the tiptoeing butler.

 

[Tisiphone]

WooT!

 

[whisky]

Was a bridge too far in black and white?

 

[Conchaga]

there was also one bizarre but compelling one by[I think] Salavador Dali, which I can't remember the title of - but there was a scene with someone taking a razor blade to an eyeball - akkk! - unforgettable image.

You mean this one?

Warning! Don't click if you don't want to be totally creeped out.

Spoiler

As for some of my favorite B&W films, here we go.

The Naughty Nineties
Animal Crackers
Freaks
Strangelove (of course!)
Harvey (definitely the precursor to Darko)
and
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)

Just to name a few.

 

[curiousa2z]

oh hell...I forgot Harvey, too.

there are some B & W flicks I've missed that sound very worthwhile!

 

[Conchaga]

Anything WC Fields, Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, and Buster Keaton are solid gold... or solid gray.

 

[Conchaga]

akkk! that's the one! wot's it called?

Un Chien Andalou

It was a Dali/Bunuel short.

The eye wasn't really human, though. It was a calf's eye, IIRC.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I'm surprised no one has gone down the Fellini or Bergman route.

I'm just not as versed in their stuff to name a favorite without being a pretentious twat. But years ago, I used to love listening to the soundtrack of Juliet of the Spirits while working late in the office.