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.