Best black and white film of the past 30 years?
Raging Bull
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Raging Bull easy, followed by The Elephant Man a little futher down the road.
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My personal favourite: TwentyFourSeven.
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Probably Raging Bull, but personally I love La Haine.( French film that I think was called Hate in the US )
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I actually never seen Raging Bull yet...
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How about a sub category for mostly black and white. I would nominate Ed Wood.
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Originally Posted by Tacitus
My personal favourite: TwentyFourSeven.
Also, you are clearly not over Bob.
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Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah
That looks like an interesting one.
Also, you are clearly not over Bob.
But that's a different film entirely.
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The Elephant Man
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I find I often get enthusiastic about something I've just seen. It was a two hour TV special on 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' One of the central purposes of this production for directors as far back as its first production on Broadway in 1955 has been to encourage viewers to relate the film to their own lives rather than just commisserate over the fate of the Jews in WW2. This I have done in the following prose-poem which I place here in praise of this 2001 movie for TV. A DVD has just been released in the last year sometime. It has 2 Anne Frank movies on it, I believe.
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TAKING OUR WORLD BY STORM
On August 1st 1944, nine days after I was born, Anne Frank made her last entry in what has become one of the famous books of our time: The Diary of Anne Frank. The book is now said to be the largest selling non-fiction book after The Bible. Anne died just before her 16th birthday in March 1945 in a German concentration camp. But Anne lives on in her diary, arguably the major, the popular, voice of the Jews from the Holocaust of WW2. The first edition of her diary came out in 1952; the first Broadway production in 1955 and the first movie in March 1959. This Dutch Jewish teenager also lived on in several television productions. One of these I saw last night. -Ron Price with thanks to “History Thru The Lens: The Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes From the Past,” Southern Cross TV, 12:30-2:30 a.m., 20 January 2006.
You were just becoming known
to a wider public, to any public,
at the same time as this new Faith
was becoming known to me and
to another wider world right back
in those early fifties when I was
getting my start in the great journey.
Your diary went on Broadway
in the midst of that crisis in ’55.
Of course, there are always troubles
in Iran; like the Jews it seems, a place
of endless struggle. Not that it meant
much to me back then when I was 15
and your diary became a movie in ’59,
released two days before Naw Ruz.
I was playing baseball and hockey,
trying to make it with girls and school
and just having entered the outer fringes
of a Movement that would become
the greatest drama in religious history
and certainly provide the greatest drama
in my life and in the future of humankind.
That spring and summer of ’59
the world understood more of
that enormity, that tragedy,
that unbelievable horror
through your eloquent voice
from the past, death’s corridors
for those who speak no more.
And I came closer and closer
to a Force that took my life by storm,
unobtrusively, quietly, seductively.
Ron Price
January 20th 2006
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TAKING OUR WORLD BY STORM
On August 1st 1944, nine days after I was born, Anne Frank made her last entry in what has become one of the famous books of our time: The Diary of Anne Frank. The book is now said to be the largest selling non-fiction book after The Bible. Anne died just before her 16th birthday in March 1945 in a German concentration camp. But Anne lives on in her diary, arguably the major, the popular, voice of the Jews from the Holocaust of WW2. The first edition of her diary came out in 1952; the first Broadway production in 1955 and the first movie in March 1959. This Dutch Jewish teenager also lived on in several television productions. One of these I saw last night. -Ron Price with thanks to “History Thru The Lens: The Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes From the Past,” Southern Cross TV, 12:30-2:30 a.m., 20 January 2006.
You were just becoming known
to a wider public, to any public,
at the same time as this new Faith
was becoming known to me and
to another wider world right back
in those early fifties when I was
getting my start in the great journey.
Your diary went on Broadway
in the midst of that crisis in ’55.
Of course, there are always troubles
in Iran; like the Jews it seems, a place
of endless struggle. Not that it meant
much to me back then when I was 15
and your diary became a movie in ’59,
released two days before Naw Ruz.
I was playing baseball and hockey,
trying to make it with girls and school
and just having entered the outer fringes
of a Movement that would become
the greatest drama in religious history
and certainly provide the greatest drama
in my life and in the future of humankind.
That spring and summer of ’59
the world understood more of
that enormity, that tragedy,
that unbelievable horror
through your eloquent voice
from the past, death’s corridors
for those who speak no more.
And I came closer and closer
to a Force that took my life by storm,
unobtrusively, quietly, seductively.
Ron Price
January 20th 2006
Last edited by RonPrice; 01-20-06 at 03:02 AM.
Reason: Wanted to add a few words
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Clerks.
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Raging Bull, by a landslide. IMO, one of the best films ever made, and Marty's masterwork. A perfect film from first frame to last.
Some other's I like:
The Man Who Wasn't There (Coens)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
The Elephant Man (Lynch) (been a LONG time since I saw this one, but I tend to favor Eraserhead for it's sheer craziness)
Some other's I like:
The Man Who Wasn't There (Coens)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
The Elephant Man (Lynch) (been a LONG time since I saw this one, but I tend to favor Eraserhead for it's sheer craziness)
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Clerks
Raging Bull
Sin City(mostly black and white)
Pleasantville(ditto)
Raging Bull
Sin City(mostly black and white)
Pleasantville(ditto)
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Raging Bull is definitely my favourite, but The Elephant Man and Schindler's List are also great films.
Originally Posted by limboslam
I liked Ed Wood, but I think we're supposed to say Schindlers List.
Does Pleasantville count?
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