The Artist is nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Production Design in a Period Film this year, and it got me thinking about other black and white films with great production design. Here are a few of my favourite films/scenes that are beautiful without Technicolor.
The Birth, Life, and Death of Christ (1906)
Art Direction: Alice Guy
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
Art Direction: Otis Turner
Metropolis
Metropolis (1927)
Art Directors: Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht
Citizen Kane (1941)
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase | Set Decorator: Darrell Silvera
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Art Directors: Hans Dreier, John Meehan | Set Decorators: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Persona (1966)
Production Designer: Bibi Lindström
Manhattan (1979)
Production Designer: Mel Bourne | Set Decorator: Robert Drumheller
The Artist (2011)
Production Designer: Laurence Bennett | Art Director: Gregory S. Hooper | Set Decorator: Austin Buchinsky, Robert Gould
What is your favourite black and white film?
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Fav is Metropolis, hands down.
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From a production design standpoint, The Thief of Bagdad starring Douglas Fairbanks, with art direction by the great William Cameron Menzies.