Why Black and White is Better than Color

In this episode, Joe and Dan argue the merits of black and white over color. Films and filmmakers discussed... FILMS: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman * No Country for Old Men * Shaft * Dr. Zhivago * Sweeney Todd * Raging Bull * In Cold Blood * The Day of the Locust * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * American Beauty * The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari * Nosferatu * The Golem * Young Frankenstein * Cat People * The Body Snatcher * Invasion of the Body Snatchers * The Curse of the Cat People * I Walked with a Zombie * The Leopard Man * The Grapes of Wrath * The Ox-Bow Incident * High Noon * The Day of the Jackal * Dirty Harry * Chinatown * Taxi Driver * The Twilight Zone * Manhattan * Stranger Than Paradise * Down by Law * The Outer Limits * Ed Wood * The Adventures of Robin Hood * The Mummy * My Darling Clementine * The Tingler * Sunrise * Double Indemnity * Carnival of Souls * A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies * Night of the Living Dead * Invisible Invaders * The Last Man on Earth * I Am Legend * The Maltese Falcon * From Here to Eternity * It's a Wonderful Life * FILMMAKERS: Georges Melies * Nathan Juran * Gordon Parks * Nicolas Roeg * David Lean * Tim Burton * The Coen Brothers * Martin Scorsese * Joel Schumacher * Richard Brooks * Conrad Hall * Val Lewton * Mel Brooks * Boris Karloff * Marlon Brando * Dashiell Hammett * Gary Cooper * John Wayne * Anthony Mann * Fred Zinnemann * Clint Eastwood * John Huston * Mickey Spillane * Don Siegel * Philip Kaufman * Woody Allen * Jim Jarmusch * Henry Fonda * Vincent Price * F. W. Murnau * George Romero * John Agar * Humphrey Bogart * Theme from The Conversation by David Shire ... Blog image from Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane shot by Gregg Toland ... 36:44 / 33.7 MB / Rated: PG-13... "Thanks for the download" ... Next Episode: The Films of Samuel Fuller

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Why Black and White is Better than Color is an episode from Edge of the Frame by Lance Anderson, Joseph Dougherty, Dan Farren.

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This episode was published on Mar 23, 2008.

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