"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
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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August 5, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1960, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Gunnar Fischer, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden | Tags: Bibi Andersson, Black & White, Jarl Kulle, Nils Poppe, Swedish | Leave a comment
"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place."
- Mick Travis
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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July 30, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1968, Drama, Lindsay Anderson, Miroslav Ondricek, UK | Tags: Black & White, Color, English, Latin, Malcolm McDowell | Leave a comment
"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
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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July 28, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1949, Akira Kurosawa, Asakazu Nakai, Crime, Drama, Japan, Thriller | Tags: Black & White, Japanese, Keiko Awaji, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune | Leave a comment
"Wagons West!"
- Travis Blue
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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July 23, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1950, Adventure, Bert Glennon, John Ford, USA, Western | Tags: Ben Johnson, Black & White, English, Harry Carey Jr., Jane Darwell, Joanne Dru, Navajo, Spanish, Ward Bond | Leave a comment
"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."
- Frank Chambers
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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July 10, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1946, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sidney Wagner, Tay Garnett, Thriller, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, Hume Cronyn, John Garfield, Lana Turner | Leave a comment
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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July 5, 2016 | Categories: 1983, 2.35:1, Carlo Varini, Luc Besson, Sci-Fi | Tags: Black & White, Jean Reno, Pierre Jolivet, Silent | Leave a comment
""Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet.""
- The Author
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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July 2, 2016 | Categories: 1.33:1, 1929, Comedy, Curt Courant, Drama, Fritz Lang, Germany, Romance, Sci-Fi | Tags: Black & White, German, Klaus Pohl, Silent, Willy Fritsch | Leave a comment
"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
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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June 28, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1955, Comedy, Gunnar Fischer, Ingmar Bergman, Romance, Sweden | Tags: Bibi Andersson, Black & White, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Swedish, Ulla Jacobsson | Leave a comment
"Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World."
- Carl Denham
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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June 25, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1933, Adventure, Edward Linden, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fantasy, Horror, J.O. Taylor, Merian C. Cooper, USA, Vernon L. Walker | Tags: Black & White, Bruce Cabot, English, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong | Leave a comment
"You're dead, son. Get yourself buried."
- J.J. Hunsecker
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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June 23, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1957, Alexander Mackendrick, Drama, Film-Noir, James Wong Howe, USA | Tags: Barbara Nichols, Black & White, Burt Lancaster, English, Martin Milner, Susan Harrison, Tony Curtis | Leave a comment
"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
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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June 20, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1983, Comedy, Crime, François Truffaut, France, Mystery, Néstor Almendros, Thriller | Tags: Black & White, Fanny Ardant, French, Jean-Louis Trintignant | Leave a comment
"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."
- Joe
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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June 18, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1971, Dalton Trumbo, Drama, Jules Brenner, USA, War | Tags: Black & White, Color, Donald Sutherland, English, Jason Robards, Kathy Fields, Timothy Bottoms | Leave a comment
"I want you to live with me and die with me and everything with me!"
- Humbert Humbert
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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June 10, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1962, Crime, Drama, Oswald Morris, Romance, Stanley Kubrick, UK, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, French, James Mason, Lois Maxwell, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon | Leave a comment
"Nobody's Perfect"
- Osgood Fielding III
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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June 7, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1959, Billy Wilder, Charles Lang, Comedy, Crime, Romance, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis | Leave a comment
"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
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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June 2, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1941, Crime, Drama, Irving Pichel, J. Peverell Marley, Jean Renoir, Lucien Ballard, Mystery, Thriller, USA | Tags: Anne Baxter, Black & White, Dana Andrews, English, John Carradine, Virginia Gilmore, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Ward Bond | Leave a comment
"Nazis? That explains your arrogance, stupidity, and bad manners."
- Philip Armstrong Scott
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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May 30, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1941, Drama, Freddie Young, Michael Powell, Thriller, UK, War | Tags: Black & White, English, French, German, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey | Leave a comment
"We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking
about killing me and I'm talking about killing him."
- Joseph Newton
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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May 25, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1943, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph A. Valentine, Thriller, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Teresa Wright | Leave a comment
"The Fool is hurt."
- Gelsomina
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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May 22, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1954, Carlo Carlini, Drama, Federico Fellini, Italy, Otello Martelli | Tags: Anthony Quinn, Black & White, Giulietta Masina, Italian, Richard Basehart | Leave a comment
"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
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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May 19, 2016 | Categories: 1966, 2.35:1, Billy Wilder, Comedy, Drama, Joseph LaShelle, USA | Tags: Black & White, Cliff Osmond, Color, Jack Lemmon, Les Tremayne, Ron Rich, Walter Matthau | Leave a comment
"Please... come in..."
- Shizuko
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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May 17, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1956, Drama, Japan, Kazuo Miyagawa, Kenji Mizoguchi | Tags: Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Black & White, Daisuke Katō, Eitarô Shindô, Hiroko Machida, Japanese, Machiko Kyô, Michiyo Kogure | Leave a comment
"Your idea of fidelity is not having more
than one man in bed at the same time."
- Robert Gold
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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May 15, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1965, Drama, John Schlesinger, Kenneth Higgins, Romance, UK | Tags: Black & White, Dirk Bogarde, English, Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey | Leave a comment
"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
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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May 11, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1980, Comedy, Drama, Gordon Willis, USA, Woody Allen | Tags: Black & White, Charlotte Rampling, English, French, Jessica Harper, Tony Roberts, Woody Allen | Leave a comment
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
- Mrs. de Winter
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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May 7, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1940, Alfred Hitchcock, Drama, Film-Noir, George Barnes, Mystery, Thriller, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, French, George Sanders, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Laurence Olivier | Leave a comment
"All you people, applaud. All you young lovers, applaud for your dreams."
- Masako
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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May 6, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1947, Akira Kurosawa, Asakazu Nakai, Drama, Japan, Romance | Tags: Black & White, Chieko Nakakita, Isao Numasaki, Japanese | Leave a comment