Help me add films to this list. All of them use both color and black-and-white. Note that this does not mean (if it is the only use) films like Schindler's List or Sin City which selectively color part of a frame. These films switch the entire picture from color to black-and-white or the reverse, a la The Wizard of Oz.
- American History X
- The Fall (2006)
- The Fugitive
- In Praise of Love
- I'm Not There
- JFK
- Kill Bill (both volumes)
- A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven]
- Memento
- Natural Born Killers
- Persepolis
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- Raging Bull
- Ten Canoes
- Thirteen Days
- Wings of Desire
- The Wizard of Oz
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The Icicle Thief (Ladri di Saponette) - 1989
There's a really good conversation about all of this in this section I found on infoplease.
"Sometimes black and white is used in a color film as a way of establishing a biographical past for a principal character. This technique is used in Mishima (1985) and Zelig (1983). Sometimes it establishes a point of view, as for a gay man looking down desiringly on a group of schoolboys in If … (1969). Other older experiments with black and white and color include Portrait of Jennie (1948) and Eisenstein's great experiment with ideologically mixing it up in Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozny, Russia, 1944)."
http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/aesthetics-black-white-color.html#ixzz11QkWuJfs
http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/film-aesthetics-black-white-color-film.html
Can't wait to read more of your stuff.
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