Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Black and White in Colour
posted @12:46 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Our loyal contributors RAVI HOLY and TIM HEANEY have been engaged in an interesting dialogue over on the recent Stevo King best-of list comment board, this to do with the best movies shot in monochrome in the years since colour became the industry standard and black-and-white was reduced to an increasingly rarefied art-house taste. (Off the top of my head I would put the dividing line here somewhere around 1966-67.) Ravi and Tim share a great many tastes in this field so I'm going to run Ravi's list below and add here that Tim also spoke up for LA HAINE, PI, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, and THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. For the sake of form I can also say I fondly remember WINGS OF DESIRE, EUROPA, RUMBLEFISH, portions of MISHIMA, NOIR ET BLANC by Clare Devers, BLACK RAIN (by Imamura, not Ridley Scott...), and others that are now a black-and-white blur...
