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Nov 9, 2021 · Why there are so many black-and-white movies in 2021. From Passing to Belfast, The French Dispatch to Gunda, the monochrome movie is back in full force — and for interesting new...
Nov 18, 2015 · Black-and-white films allow one’s imagination to color in the pictures. They permit the viewer to be the color advisor, no matter how random or fanciful the choices may be. Our visual world is chock-full of its own multihued aspects, so why not indulge in a black-and-white pictorial zone and color in your own domain?
Jan 18, 2021 · Most filmmakers who choose to shoot in black and white now are doing so for a distinct reason. The rise in digital and the advent of the iPhone has made shooting stuff easier and cheaper than just buying black and white stock.
Feb 15, 2022 · Cinema lovers have long waxed poetic about the power of black-and-white films, and several recent movies forgoing color have gained critical acclaim.
- Nicholas Derenzo
- Black and White Pushed Film Forward
- Black and White Creates A New Reality
- Black and White Is Counterintuitively Lifelike
Much of cinema's aesthetic achievements can be traced to the qualities inherent to black and white film itself. German Expressionism, a bleak and psychological genre that flourished in the years after the first World War, "had a huge cultural influence...for its notably abstract sets and high-contrast lightning." This was a huge step toward camera ...
Black and white cinematography, by its very nature, presents something that is totally unreal, and, in doing so, creates a new kind of reality—a filmic one. A black and white movie "gives you a view of the world that really doesn't exist in reality," says director Frank Darabont. This is what gives black and white movies their "unique, dreamlike qu...
Black and white cinematography, the predominant idiom of film for most of its history, has much more to offer than its apt depiction of freak-outs. It has been a tool, wielded by artists to create any number of effects. Contrasting the point above, black and white can also be used to make scenes feel more real. In the color film era, directors use ...
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Nov 10, 2021 · Directors including Steven Spielberg and David Fincher explain why they made movies like "Schindler's List" and "Mank" in black and white.
Greatest Black and White Movies of all time. Before there was color, filmmakers learned their craft using black and white film stocks and gave us some of cinema's finest moments on celluloid.
