best black and white movies you saw this year

[lester1/2jr]

jack- is the flesh eaters the one where they are on the island?  that is a good movie.  nazi doctor or something?


Also, I forgot I saw "the Snorkel", an early 60's apparently rare hammer suspense thriller on TCM.  It was very good

[Andrew]

Re-watched:
The Flesh Eaters - like this one a lot.
The Monster the Changed the World - always a fun one.

Flesh Eaters is a fun one, and surprisingly gory.  The DVD release is a lot better than I thought would ever be available.

Flesh Eaters Review

[hotspur]

Dr Strangelove

Hud

The Third Man

[Jack]

jack- is the flesh eaters the one where they are on the island?  that is a good movie.  nazi doctor or something?

Yup, that's the one.  Drunken Hollywood starlet, her amazingly hot personal assistant, it's all good   

[peter johnson]

Ingmar Bergman's "Hour of The Wolf" --
Had been meaning to see it for years, but just never got around to it -- Best thing in black and white or color that I've seen in some time.  You can see where Wim Wenders got some of his imagry for "Wings of Desire".
peter johnson/denny crane

[JaseSF]

Algiers
The Snake Pit
Teenagers From Outer Space
The Stranger
Impact
Topper Returns
They Made Me A Criminal
Scarlet Street
The Monster Maker
One Body Too Many

[lester1/2jr]

Teenagers From Outer Space

I love this movie.  It's got that super serious acting with incredibly cheap special effects.  I read one review of it once that was like "these peopel act like they are making Ben-Hur" 

They Made Me A Criminal

I'm sorry 

[darthchicken]

Pyscho
Nosferatu
Dr. Strangelove
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Last Man on Earth
Twelve Angry Men

[The Burgomaster]

Another good one I saw was THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD with Richard Burton.

[Ometiklan]

The Thing From Another World

Them

The Day The Earth Caught Fire

The Monolith Monsters

Loved 'em all!

[HarlotBug3]

I think this was the year I finally watched Psycho from start to finish. I watched a lot this year and can't recall any other BWs, save for another Hitchcock directed movie I finally got around to the other night.

The 39 steps. A not bad spy chaser with a bit of ham and cheese but a crisp pickle.

There's something so delightfully alien about old movies now that we're in the internet age. Sure there was something delightfully old about them before, but now the distance between the 1930s and the previous 700 years somehow seems shorter than the following 70.