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Though expressed with wildly different voices, black and white creates a new, unified statement.

Yet even Steven Freaking Spielberg had a hard time getting the movie made in black and white.

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The biopic is filled with love for 1950s Hollywood B-movies.

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disrupting a world he would prefer to be as colorless as himself.

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

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To quoteMankside character Orson Welles: Every performance looks better in black and white.

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(Think of it likeUncut Gemswith divine intervention.

)Besson knew that black and white was the proper choicefor his version of a romantic fairy tale.

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The Good German(2006)

Steven Soderbergh, that rabble-rouser.

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Only in Hanekes film, there is no release that comes from a dash of color or free thought.

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Stripped bare, WhedonsMuch Adohighlights the sense that sometimes Shakespeare can be a spiky, wordy bash.

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But the shots from cinematographer Phedon Papamichael that pass through these small towns are the true centerpiece.

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But thats not the case with this 2015 film.

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The Party(2018)

Sometimes black and white is the just-right choice for a minimalist script.

AsPotter has put it herself, Black and white is much more colorful from an emotional point of view.

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