Great Films and their Great Images

Posts tagged “Black & White

The Devil’s Eye

"Satan has a sore eye. It may be a sty. Either he
has been in a draft - which is unthinkable in
hell - or something alarming has happened on earth."
- The Actor
01 (17)

Dir: Ingmar Bergman

DoP: Gunnar Fischer

Year: 1960

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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If….

"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place."
- Mick Travis
01 (29)
Dir: Lindsay Anderson

DoP: Miroslav Ondricek

Year: 1968

Country: UK

Language: English | Latin

Genre: Drama

Color: Black & White | Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Stray Dog

"Bad luck either makes a man or destroys him. Are you gonna let it
destroy you? Depending how you take it, bad luck can be a big break."
- Police Inspector Nakajima
01 (25)

Dir: Akira Kurosawa

DoP: Asakazu Nakai

Year: 1949

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Wagon Master

"Wagons West!"
- Travis Blue
01 (57)

Dir: John Ford

DoP: Bert Glennon

Year: 1950

Country: USA

Language: English | Navajo | Spanish

Genre: Adventure | Western

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."
- Frank Chambers
01 (5)
Dir: Tay Garnett

DoP: Sidney Wagner

Year: 1946

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir 
| Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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The Last Battle

01 (52) 
Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Carlo Varini
Year: 1983
Country: France
Language: Silent
Genre: Sci-Fi
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Frau Im Mond (Woman in the Moon)

""Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet.""
- The Author
01 (57)

Dir: Fritz Lang

DoP: Curt Courant

Year: 1929

Country: Germany

Language: German | Silent

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

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Smiles of a Summer Night

"And then the summer night smiled for the third time."
- Petra the Maid

"For the sad, the depressed, the sleepless,
the confused, the frightened, the lonely."
- Frid the Groom
01 (36)

Dir: Ingmar Bergman

DoP: Gunnar Fischer

Year: 1955

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Genre: Comedy | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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King Kong

"Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World."
- Carl Denham
01 (49)

Dir: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack

DoP: Edward Linden, J.O. Taylor, 
& Vernon L. Walker
Year: 1933

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Adventure | Fantasy | Horror

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Sweet Smell of Success

"You're dead, son. Get yourself buried."
- J.J. Hunsecker
01 (4)
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick

DoP: James Wong Howe

Year: 1957

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Film-Noir

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Confidentially Yours

"Everything I've done was for women. I like to
look at them and to touch them.I enjoy giving them
pleasure. Women are magic, so I became a magician."
- Maitre Clement
01 (60)
Dir: François Truffaut

DoP: Néstor Almendros

Year: 1983

Country: France

Language: French

Genre: Comedy | Crime 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Johnny Got His Gun

"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."
- Joe
01 (24)
Dir: Dalton Trumbo

DoP: Jules Brenner

Year: 1971

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Drama | War

Color: Color | Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Lolita

"I want you to live with me and die with me and everything with me!"
- Humbert Humbert
01 (10)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

DoP: Oswald Morris

Year: 1962

Country: UK | USA

Language: French | English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Some Like It Hot

"Nobody's Perfect"
- Osgood Fielding III
01 (4)
Dir: Billy Wilder

DoP: Charles Lang

Year: 1959

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Swamp Water

"If you can learn to live with cotton-mouths and 'gators and
panthers, on places where there ain't a solid bit of ground
to stand on, why I reckon you're welcome to your life."
- Tom Keefer
01 (12)

Dir: Jean Renoir 
(uncredited: Irving Pichel)
DoP: J. Peverell Marley 
(uncredited: Lucien Ballard)
Year: 1941

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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49th Parallel

"Nazis? That explains your arrogance, stupidity, and bad manners."
- Philip Armstrong Scott
01 (28)

Dir: Michael Powell

DoP: Freddie Young

Year: 1941

Country: UK

Language: English | German | French

Genre: Drama | War | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Shadow of a Doubt

"We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking
about killing me and I'm talking about killing him."
- Joseph Newton
01 (38)

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

DoP: Joseph A. Valentine

Year: 1943

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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La Strada

"The Fool is hurt."
- Gelsomina
01 (5)

Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Otello Martelli (uncredited: Carlo Carlini)

Year: 1954

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Genre: Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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The Fortune Cookie

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, you
can even fool some of the people all of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of the time!"
- Harry Hinkle
01 (12)
Dir: Billy Wilder
DoP: Joseph LaShelle
Year: 1966
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Akasen Chitai

"Please... come in..."
- Shizuko
01 (15)

Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi

DoP: Kazuo Miyagawa

Year: 1956

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Genre: Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Darling

"Your idea of fidelity is not having more
than one man in bed at the same time."
- Robert Gold
01 (41)
Dir: John Schlesinger

DoP: Kenneth Higgins

Year: 1965

Country: UK

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Stardust Memories

"You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can
control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert."
- Sandy Bates
01 (36)Dir: Woody Allen

DoP: Gordon Willis

Year: 1980

Country: USA

Language: English | French 
| Persian
Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Rebecca

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
- Mrs. de Winter
01 (36)

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

DoP: George Barnes

Year: 1940

Country: USA

Language: English | French

Genre: Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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One Wonderful Sunday

"All you people, applaud. All you young lovers, applaud for your dreams."
- Masako
01 (18)

Dir: Akira Kurosawa

DoP: Asakazu Nakai

Year: 1947

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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