Black and white movies

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I have been really getting into movies lately and I have recently found that not only can I bear to watch black and white movies but I love them especially the horror genre. also most of the old no audio dialgue ones are youtubable and good for passing time at work. Any who here are a few I have checked out and enjoyed. Please post any suggestions I watch about one movie a day so I'm sure they will be watched shortly.

The Begotten
Nosferatu
Invasion of the body snatchers
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dr. Strangelove
Clerks
erm.... that scene from Kill Bill

The Seventh Seal
Quatermass and the Pit
Night of the Demon
M (Peter Lorre)
The Wolf Man (with Lon Chaney)
Psycho
The Third Man

Also:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CIwVKNjM4[/youtube]

And on more of a tangent:

Seven Samurai
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Longest Day

Here are some of my favorite b&w movies
Seven Samurai and Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
Dr Strangelove and Lolita by Stanley Kubrick
Citizen Kane by Orson Wells
Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey

A Hard Day's Night, is a favourite of mine.

I have seen Carnival of souls it was a good flick, I was trying to think of it for my list but couldn't remember the name. I like watching movies like that when I am half asleep as it adds on to the erieness. I think tonight I am going to try to watch M and or 7 samurai, then make my way to the others.

...I like Busby Berkley's black and white musicals ( most of them " directed " by somebody else , he was known as the dance director ` I wish I could see some/see them again ! ~ Gold Diggers Of 1933 , 42d Street , Footlight Parade , Dames...

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The Man Who Wasn't There Coen Bros.
w/ Billy Bob Thornton and Frances Mcdormand
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXtNFalpLl8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLxsOJK9bs&playnext_from=TL&videos=qRj6nO99iNU[/youtube]

My wife and I love the old black and white horror classics, in particular Nosferatu, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The Wolfman, and others. Much can be said as well for modern black and white films like the recent remake of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and David Lynch's Eraser Head, and The Elephant Man. And we both agree the old Twilight Zone couldn't have worked in color; the black and white imagery only added to the creepiness and mystery.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

a minority opinion here, but i can barely tolerate black and white anything. it is to my eyes what monophonic sound is to my ears- reductive and with the indelible sense that something important is missing from the presentation.

Metropolis
Citizen Kane

Sailor Beware!

Maniac (1934)
Dead Men Walk (1943)
The Devil Bat (1941)
Black Dragons (1942)
Voodoo Man (1944)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
The Ape Man (1943)
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
The Flying Serpent (1945)
The Monster Maker (1944)
The Mad Monster (1942)

I find this ironic in the fact that as far as I can tell your avatar is in black and white.

I very much dislike black and white as well. Nostalgia and me never got along.

i find that if i stare at something flesh-colored long enough, then when i look back at my avatar it looks somewhat fleshy. anyways, i am no puter expert or even a puter plebian so i took what avatar i could get to fit in the tiny little WP window. if i could've gotten a color version i woulda taken one. i tried colorizing it but then it was too big bitwise for WP.
what i really am torqued off by, are art snobs belittling me and my itty bitty brain for being the way i am. but i digress. us monochrome-meh types have got to stick together more often.
one of my weird hobbies is modernizing nostalgia- what a concept, no?

Some really good modern black and white films:

"the heart of the world" a short film by guy maddin... Available on YouTube
"Brand Upon the Brain" also by guy maddin.
"the American Astronaut". Odd, funny, a rock and roll sci-fi western musical
"The Forbidden Zone" something to offend everyone.