black & white
The Lighthouse (2019) – Robert Eggers
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Picture-pitch perfect except for the sound of farts offensively trapping a scattered
plot inside of a frame that hits one square between the eyes.
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Blue Jay (2016) Alex Lehmann
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A soft exploration of nostalgia which turns into intoxicating, soul seeking frustration.
The black and white approach lets you see and feel in synesthetic ways.
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The Loved One (1965) – Tony Richardson
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Smack in the stiff middle of the 1960´s cerebral courtesy: a sunny-dark comedy of the black & whitest kind adorned and embalmed with Liberace.
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The Wasps Are Here (1978) Darmasena Pathiraja
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Intriguing community-building affairs vaunted with a cozily speckled beach vibe.
But stripped naked by bland emotional acting and suggestively fading ties at the end.
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Mank (2020) – David Fincher
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Single most black & white modern period-film exquisitely monkey-grinding the royal Randolph hemp out of us with Reznor-sharp reel-changing monochromatic flair.
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Cecil Beaton Exhibit – Kampa Museum. Prague, Czech Republic
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In spite of “his” queenly-elegant, high-fashion posings of the “gifted class”,
his innate compassion evokes sincere smiles and matures him into Gary Cooper!
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Memento (2000) – Chris Nolan
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Circular uphill post-amnesiac ride that prints itself out both in color and black & white while each new layer diagonally help us to remember.
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Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
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A magic potion picture film that blatantly discriminates color and is heavy and greasy to the touch with high-contrasting characters gunned out of lead.
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003) – Guy Maddin
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…in the happiest German-expressionistic “talkie” that comes to mind. A dream-hybrid between narrating silent-era camera moves and gold-digging song and dance.
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In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
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You don´t let a dame in distress walk into your place for help twice without secretly testing your own fidelity to yourself and professional practice.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
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How can you tell if the gold is even real when inside your head everything is in black and white? True colors cross you twice.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) – The Coen Brothers
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The exquisite sense of irony of modern man’s bullshit life is never dry-cleaner than here; all been told in luminance levels imbued with Beethoven.
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The Night of the Iguana (1964) – John Huston
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Aging can (and will) drive you crazy as long as you´re not keeping up with your peers. Are clergymen exempt from this? Let´s find out.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Blake Edwards
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Always soul crushing to see a grown man sob like a silver child in a fairytale world where alcohol turns back into heroin every midnight.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) – Alexander Mackendrick
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Hunting down the single cleanest man on Earth to make him dirty like the rest of us is not such an easy task after all.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Blake Edwards
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The pitiful side of alcoholism and the black & white big road of fun that takes one there. Large caliber acting in a tremendous film.
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Limbo – PS4 Game (2013) – Playdead
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Eine authentisch dynamisch und in sich abschließende Schwarz/Weiß-Welt.
Nachtschwärmende 2,5 Stunden investierte Rätsel-und Atmosphärentiefe geben diesem mysteriös neumodischen Gaming-Kurztrip großen Mehrspielwert.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) – Mike Nichols
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A gasoline marriage waiting for a young match to come and share their social lubricant. Venomous but loving wit that’s wet with shades of grey.
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Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
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A budget-bulged passion package containing tremendous Orson Welles admiration inside, while storytelling the shaky struggling days of a good heart looking for missing talent.
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Wicked Game (1991) – Herb Ritts
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Black volcanic ash and white cotton-clouded highlights blown by mortally sexual palm-tree cuts spilling sweet sepia sap everywhere inside the perpetual voyeuristic frame.
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Jayne Mansfield & Sophia Loren (1957)
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If a single picture representing humanity needed to be sent out to space across stretching chasms of remote stars that aren´t as orphaned as ours…
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Sunset Boulevard (1960) – Billy Wilder
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Stays enticing and incredibly abducting all the way thorough: from the first killer-shot till the last…from the first viewing to obsessing about it.
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Victory at Sea (1952-1953) – NBC
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An astounding set of newsreel-like pieces set in a frantic world-creating pace covering large-scale naval conflicts with nothing but grace and respect.
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Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.
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Roma (2018) – Alfonso Cuarón
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Optisches Meisterwerk aus beeindruckend schwenkender Kameraarbeit (über 360 Grad!) und langen Shots erzeugt intimes Mexiko der 70er, wessen Handlung in Akt 3 besonders glänzt.