Our first discussion thread! What are your favourite black&white films?

All good choices from everyone! A few I've seen in the past year or two that I've enjoyed (in no particular order):

• Touch of Evil, Orson Wells (1958)
• The Third Man, Carol Reed (1949)
• In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray (1950)
• Key Largo, John Huston (1948)
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Lewis Milestone (1930)
• Sleepers West, Eugene Forde (1941)
• Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa (1961)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Lanfield (1939)
• This Gun for Hire, Frank Tuttle (1942)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth, Joel Coen (2021)

I could pick so many. Gonna try to limit it.

• 8 1/2
• Persona
• Los Olvidados
• Harakiri
• The Human Condition Trilogy
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Cleo From 5 to 7
• Seven Samurai
• It's A Wonderful Life
• Citizen Kane
• City Lights
• Man With a Movie Camera
• La Haine

I will start with some of mine!

• Strangers on a Train, Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
• Blonde Venus, Joseph Von Sternberg (1932)
• Witness for the Prosecution, Billy Wilder (1957)
• The bad and the Beautiful, Vincent Minelli (1952)
• Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Surges (1944)
• Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder (1951)
• Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle (1958)
• Rome Open City, Roberto Rossellini (1945)
• The Third Lover, Claude Chabrol (1962)
• The Ascent, Larisa Shepitko (1977)
• Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Tarkovsky (1962)
• Masculin Feminin, Jean-Luc Godard (1966)
• The Cameraman, Buster Keaton (1928)
• Shock Corridor, Sam Fuller (1963)
• The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin (1925)

Curious about yours ! :)

Okay, my turn…

Are repeat mentions allowed? The posters so far have good taste.

In no particular order, my baker's dozen:

1. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
2. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
3. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
4. Le Trou (The Hole), Becker, FRA, 1960
5. The Third Man (1949)
6. Village of The Damned (1960)
7. Casablanca (Really? Thought I'd leave that one out?) (19
8. Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)
9. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
10. Fail Safe (Lumet, 1964)
11. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), Buñuel/Dalí, FRA, 1929
12. Double Indemnity (1944)
13. The Apartment (1960)

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Wait! Wait! I have to repeat-mention 2019's The Lighthouse!

Les Diaboliques (1955)

12 Angry Men was the b/w film I watched. It blew my mind.

I really like Francis Ha - not sure why, maybe it's just the way Greta moves

Does memento count?

Otherwise I would say Eraserhead and m - eine Stadt sucht einen mörder

For a modern option I would go with Max Mad - Fury Road : Black & Chrome (2015).

Scene example - https://youtu.be/BQ3AZNOpzs4