Peter Bogdanovich talks about black & white
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funny how Mel Brooks made Young Frankenstein in b&w like 3 years later
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@FetaCheese222 you'll get over it!
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@directorlog Jesus, that is the first time I'm ever seen anyone confuse Rocky Horror for The Last Picture Show.
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@shnoepie1 Woody Allen's work is anything but consistent. Also Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds are two (uh, three?) of the best movies of the 00's.
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@directorlog he directed the LAST Picture Show
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Mel Brooks made Young Frankenstein in black and white a few years after this.
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@tuxguys I was just thinking that! Plus, he would go on to produce Lynch's black-and-white film The Elephant Man in 1980.
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@shnoepie1 I think you're mistaking flaws with style and maybe production quality. Mean Streets was shot like a street picture, like a Cassavettes picture, or a Maysles Brothers' film, or a Godard film, the purpose was to capture the look, atmosphere, and attitude of a specific time and place, like the old Direct Cinema films of the60's. Scorsese said before the film ever achieved any success he'd hoped it could at least serve as an anthropological study to future generations about the
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Dontcha hate color? I hate color. B&W is the sign of a quality movie. Or a film noir. Or a 40s B movie. Whatever.
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Peter Bogdanovich actually, for ONCE, seems like a nice guy here! Flashes of Quincy, but not as bad as he is now...
Thanks for posting. I was actually lucky enough to meet Peter and get something signed by him at a Bodanovich retrospective in San Francisco. They also had a director's cut of Nickelodeon being shown for the first time in it's intended black and white format.
Thosedamnhippies 3 years ago 10
Nut?
saltheshoe 2 years ago 4