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Great Modern Uses of Good Ol’ Black and White

Great Modern Uses of Good Ol' Black and White (photo)

Indie cred, intimacy and all the other reasons filmmakers still shoot in monochrome.

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Posted June 08th, 2009, 9:06 AM by Alison Willmore

Shooting a film in black and white has been a choice rather than a necessity for decades now. This week on the IFC News podcast, we dig through the last ten years of color-free features to look for all the recent reasons directors have decided to go monochromatic, from its indie credibility to its intimacy to the way it allows you to critique films from the past.

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