Guilty as charged. Sometimes, just to keep up with the critical zeitgeist, I will tweet out my thoughts about a film the moment I leave the movie theater. I don't like doing it, great films usually need time to be processed, but at film festivals it's almost a requirement that comes with job, especially if you're at the world premiere. I'll admit, I've been tempted to stop this practice, especially since, from time to time, my opinion has evolved and slightly changed on films I had originally tweeted about.
Read more15 Great Modern-Day Movies Shot in Black & White
Since the 1960s, movies shot in black and white have practically become extinct. The number of films shot in black and white has decreased every successive decade since then. And yet, sometimes a movie demands to be shot without color to capture a certain kind of mood or tone that color would otherwise fail to get. In the case of the following list, "modern-day" means anything produced after 1970, which is when the decline really started happening. The following 15 examples are further proof that black and white will never die, as long as there are directors and DP's out there willing to value and acknowledge its importance.
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