_Beautifully Photographed Black-and-White Movies

Submitted by Oedipus on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 10:18
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  1. Metropolis (1927)): Cinematographers: Karl Freund, Günther Rittau, and Walter Ruttmann; Director: Fritz Lang
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Cinematographer: Gregg Toland; Director: John Ford
  3. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez, Harry J. Wild Et al.; Director: Orson Welles
  4. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943): Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller; Director: William A. Wellman
  5. Going My Way (1944): Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon; Director: Leo McCarey
  6. LifeBoat (1944): Cinematographer: Glen MacWilliams; Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  7. Spellbound (1945): Cinematographer: George Barnes; Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  8. They Were Expendable (1945): Cinematographer: Joseph H. August; Director: John Ford
  9. The Stranger (1946): Cinematographer: Russell Metty; Director: Orson Welles
  10. The Red House (1947): Cinematographer: Bert Glennon; Director: Delmer Daves
  11. Red River (1948): Cinematographer: Russell Harlan; Directors: Howard Hawks, and Arthur Rosson
  12. The Seven Samurai (1954): Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai; Director: Akira Kurosawa
  13. The Night of the Hunter (1955): Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez; Director: Charles Laughton
  14. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955): Cinematographer: Gunnar Fischer; Director: Ingmar Bergman
  15. Touch of Evil (1958)): Cinematographer: Russell Metty; Director: Orson Welles
  16. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959): Cinematographer: William C. Mellor; Director: George Stevens
  17. La Dolce Vita (1960): Cinematographer: Otello Martelli; Director: Federico Fellini
  18. Psycho (1960): Cinematographer: John L. Russell; Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  19. Lolita (1962): Cinematographer: Oswald Morris; Director: Stanley Kubrick
  20. The Longest Day (1962): Cinematographers: Jean Bourgoin, and Walter Wottitz; Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki
  21. The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon; Director: John Frankenheimer
  22. Hud (1963): Cinematographer: James Wong Howe; Director: Martin Ritt
  23. Lilies of the Field (1963): Cinematographer: Ernest Haller; Director: Ralph Nelson
  24. Le Petit Soldat (1963): Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; Director: Jean-Luc Godard
  25. A Hard Day's Night (1964): Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor; Director: Richard Lester
  26. Persona (1966): Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist; Director: Ingmar Bergman
  27. Young Frankenstein (1974): Cinematographer: Gerald Hirschfeld; Director: Mel Brooks
  28. Raging Bull (1980): Cinematographer: Michael Chapman; Director: Martin Scorsese
  29. Schindler's List (1993): Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski; Director: Steven Spielberg
  30. Clerks (1994): Cinematographer: David Klein; Director: Kevin Smith
  31. Ed Wood (1994): Cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky; Director: Tim Burton
  32. Following (1998): Cinematographer: Christopher Nolan; Director: Christopher Nolan
  33. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001): Cinematographer: Roger Deakins; Director: Joel Coen
  34. The Saddest Music in the World (2003): Cinematographer: Luc Montpellier; Director: Guy Maddin
  35. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005): Cinematographer: Robert Elswit; Director: George Clooney
  36. Sin City (2005): Cinematographer: Robert Rodriguez; Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, and Quentin Tarantino
AJDaGreat01/19/2006

Very nice list. I would nominate Metropolis, Touch of Evil, and Good Night and Good Luck.

Oedipus01/19/2006

Thanks. I haven't seen Good Night and Good Luck.

192201/21/2006

Ok, Good Night, and Good Luck. is definetly great in cinematography.

But what about Manhattan?

Oedipus01/25/2006

I haven't seen Manhattan either.