Top B&W British movies

[ska invita]

The Third Man wins... what else there?
I remember Carry on Cabby being good

I guess A Matter of LIfe and Death is one a lot of people rate

39 steps was on tv yesterday and that was fun

WHAT ELSE??

 

[ska invita]

What year did it all go colour??

 

[Orang Utan]

What year did it all go colour??

A Matter Of Life And Death is partially in colour!
It didn't go colour in just one year - there were colour films in the 20s

 

[DotCommunist]

Went The Day Well?

It Happened Here


theres loads of powell and pressburger ones that evryone rates too but I only saw whisky galore and that was yeeeeeears ago but everyone else seems to big that team up

e2a and on looking that one ealing anyway but they get bare love as well.

 

[kittyP]

Hitchcock's Rebecca <3

 

[ska invita]

It didn't go colour in just one year - there were colour films in the 20s

LIES

 

[Fez909]

This is supposed to be good: A Field in England (2013) - IMDb

 

[ska invita]

This is supposed to be good: A Field in England (2013) - IMDb

ive seen it, dont remember it being bnw though. so get your facts straight
...errr, just looked at clips and theyre all black and white. very strange
anyhow i mean like totally old films, not arty black and white stuff
not sure what smiley goes next
this one

and yeah its an interesting film - flawed but good stab

 

[Fez909]

ive seen it, dont remember it being bnw though. so get your facts straight
...errr, just looked at clips and theyre all black and white. very strange
anyhow i mean like totally old films, not arty black and white stuff
not sure what smiley goes next
this one

and yeah its an interesting film - flawed but good stab

Quatermass?

 

[ska invita]

Quatermass?

mmyeah, never saw that...thats meant to be good

ETA:

 

[Siouxsie]

I love b&w films, Brief encounter is my favourite.

 

[Fez909]

mmyeah, never saw that...thats meant to be good

ETA:

You need the first one - Quatermass Xperiment

 

[Fez909]

I love b&w films, Brief encounter is my favourite.

Watched the trailer for this recently. Looks v nice.

 

[Siouxsie]

Watched the trailer for this recently. Looks v nice.

It very much portrays the era, Lovely film.

 

[Orang Utan]

ive seen it, dont remember it being bnw though. so get your facts straight
...errr, just looked at clips and theyre all black and white. very strange
anyhow i mean like totally old films, not arty black and white stuff
not sure what smiley goes next
this one

and yeah its an interesting film - flawed but good stab

I think the appropriate smiley here is if you can't remember if films are black and white or not

 

[Fez909]

There's A Taste of Honey - inaugural film @ Favelado's Fishco Film club...

Very good film

 

[ska invita]

I think the appropriate smiley here is if you can't remember if films are black and white or not

show me a colour film from the 20s and then ill work out what smiley is appropriate.
make it quick because im staying up for your post alone

 

[Fez909]

show me a colour film from the 20s and then ill work out what smiley is appropriate.
make it quick because im staying up for your post alone

On with the Show! (1929) - IMDb

The oldest colour film is from 1902

 

[ska invita]

are these some kind of coloured in frame by frame things?

 

[Fez909]

are these some kind of coloured in frame by frame things?

On with the show is technicolor, which is 'proper' film I believe. Not sure about the 1902 stuff.

 

[ska invita]

well ill be. im going to bed to think about what this all means

 

[Siouxsie]

Saturday night and sunday morning is another one I love. There is a melancholy about b&w films that colour can't quite portray.

 

[Reno]

Hitchcock's Rebecca <3

...is a Hollywood film.

 

[Lurdan]

They were still making black and white feature films well into the 1960s.

What's a "top film" ?

Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Innocents, Repulsion, The Cruel Sea, A Hard Day's Night, This Sporting Life, The Criminal, The Servant, I Know Where I'm Going, Gaslight, Dead of Night, The Dam Busters, Culloden, Night of the Demon, A Diary for Timothy, It Always Rains on Sunday, Oh Mr Porter, Green For Danger, The Fallen Idol, A Canterbury Tale, The Maggie, Night of the Eagle, The Small Back Room, The Nanny, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

 

[Kaka Tim]

Brighton Rock.

Darling Dickie attenboroough utterly brilliant as brando-esque (before brando) violent gangster punk.

 

[Spymaster]

All of the Earth scenes are in colour in A Matter of Life and Death.

The Third Man is a good shout. I always think of The Lady Vanishes, and Passport to Pimlico for b&w films.

 

[danny la rouge]

The early David Lean films, the Brothers (by David MacDonald), Kind Hearts and Coronets, Up the Junction, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Night and the City, Odd Man Out, It Always Rains on Sunday, anything by Carol Reed, half of If.

 

[danny la rouge]

What year did it all go colour??

Half way through If.

Oh, wait...

 

[danny la rouge]

There's so many I can't list them. Just thought of a load more, but list threads dare boring.

 

[Red Cat]

btw Mubi are currently showing some David Lean and Powell and Pressburger