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NAME ALL YOUR FAVE B & W FILMS!

^Ditto.
 
usually too goddamned depressing to be favourites of mine. gotta say.

I'm shallow and want to escape when I seek out entertainment, not be inspired to slit my wrists. I've seen a few foreign films (Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Northern European and Eastern European, esp.) that fulfill that criteria, and made me wish I'd never watched them in the first place.

BEWARE THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS!
 
Will they make me want to weep into my beer?
 
"The Maltese Falcon".

Don't like it as much as "Casablanca", but it is a classic detective film and makes some of the best use of the b&w medium of any film out there.
 
I like Bergman. My problem with him is what curious said. He's a great writer. Brilliant. It's just that I don't feel like watching something so goddamned depressing.

Go watch The Virgin Spring. You'll see what I'm talking about.
 
HOLY SHIT I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT THIS ONE!!!

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD


I am shamed now.
 
I like the early, black and white episodes of "Lost".

Back when it was still called "Gilligan's Island".
 
Forgot two more Tracy/Hepburn films: Pat & Mike, and State of the Union.
 
I couldn't get into Pat & Mike, even though I love seeing Charles Bronson in it before he was a huge star. And Katharine Hepburn is my favorite actress, but this one just doesn't do it for me.
 
^K Hepburn was one of a kind...which just made me think of The African Queen.
 
Tisiphone said:
I couldn't get into Pat & Mike, even though I love seeing Charles Bronson in it before he was a huge star. And Katharine Hepburn is my favorite actress, but this one just doesn't do it for me.
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Yeah, of the Hepburn/Tracy films I know, it's not my fave either, but it has its moments. Of the B&W's, my fave is Woman of the Year, then State of the Union, then Adam's Rib, then P&M.
 
See, my favorite of their pairing is Desk Set, which doesn't count, because it's in color. :)
 
Well yeah, Desk Set and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner are classics. They need to be in the other thread. :)
 
I think I did put DS in the other thread.

*dashes off to check*
 
I really think that anything with Jimmy Stewart is worth watching.

Except that fucked-up christmas movie he did that the TV stations insist on airing every holiday.
 
My top three B/W:

Jezebel
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
 
Even though they are respectful ripoffs of his heroes' films (Bergmann, Fellini, etc)., I liked Woody Allen's B&W flicks:

Stardust Memories
Broadway Danny Rose
Shadows & Fog
(Celebrity not so much, Kenneth Branagh bugs me when he tries to sound American)
 
I don't get the whole Woody Allen thing. There's only one movie of his that I sort of enjoyed, and that was Mighty Aphrodite. Even the one with Hugh Jackman couldn't make me watch it.
 
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