movies

I made through about 10 minutes of One Battle After Another.

I've never heard of Hamnet.

I've watched two movies all the way through recently, D(e)ad, and Our Man In Havana.

Our Man was entertaining, and beautifully shot in black & white. You just don't see movies like that anymore. So much attention to every detail in each frame. What happens in the background is not important to the story, but is so important to the rich feel of each shot. The shots are deep, watch on mute, and just marvel at how the city seems so alive and real. I suppose the old masters were still of the mindset they were competing with stage plays, and wanted to show what film had to offer that couldn't happen on a stage?

I dunno, I don't know anything about movies, I just know what I like.

If you won't watch B&W movies because "the world is in color", I'll take a quick stab at suggesting why you're wrong. In the same way that a constraining writing prompt brings out creativity in writing, the lack of color forces the photographer to paint with light, contrast, depth of focus, motion, etc. Color is just one tool in the artist's bag, and not even a very important one when it comes to telling a story.