Re: black and white movies
Wow, you really shouldn't dismiss films due to being black and white. Some of them are truly beautiful for it.
Try watching 'Bride of Frankenstein' for example. Watch it with the sound off if you like, but concentrate on the images. It has some beautiful lighting and composition. Same with 'Night of the Hunter'. Same with the first 20 minutes of the original Dracula. Same with Nosferatu.
Some of the greatest movies ever are black and white, even without these higher aesthetic elements. 5-6 of the Marx Brothers Films, the Laurel and Hardy shorts and a couple of their longer ones, or more modern stuff like Young Frankenstein, Ed Wood, Raging Bull...
There's a ton of great 50's sci-fi films too that are B&W that are awesome: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Incredible Shrinking Man, The Thing, and suchlike.
There's also a ton of great ganster movies from Warners (I think), like Public Enemy Number One, White Heat, Angels with Dirty Faces....
And that doesn't include foreign films: Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Wages of Fear, Virgin Spring, Seventh Seal...
And even among these more obscure films, there are truths either hidden or completely obvious that leave modern films WAY BEHIND (La Dolce Vita,Battle for Algiers).
KKF, the list just goes on and on, you really need to get past this.
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