movies, films, images on a silvered screen

[threeplusfire]

Watching A Place in the Sun, a dark old film with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. How a careless mistake stands in the way of love, a man can be driven to madness. How beautiful and deadly the lake can be at night, a murder story in which the murderer is a much more sympathetic character than the victim.

I could watch some movies over and over again.

Black and white is something ought to use more of in films. The last movie I saw made in black and white, of more recent movies, was Girl on a Bridge.

Tomorrow the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring comes out. Friday is Chamber of Secrets. We are all excited.

Comments

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

I agree adamantly about black and white. It adds something you can't get in color films, and I'm not all too sure what -- it's either a layer of texture, some kind of light-and-dark density that you don't get in technicolor, or maybe something more psychologically satisfying. Maybe it's just easier on the eyes, lets one take in a shot or an angle or (gasp!) the plotline or dialogue without being overstimulated.

Then again, I'm a mere musician who's only seen quite a few movies and makes more comments about the score. :P Incidentally, I think I'm the black sheep when it comes to James Horner... Eccch.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Scene construction, set design, costumes, they are a different game when one works in black and white. One has to pay a lot more attention to the contrasts of light and dark. It amuses me to think about all those men of the black and white era. I've always wondered what the true colors of their suits were and such things.

One of the other things about the older movies that I love is that they do without all the fancy camera tricks we have now.