Black-and-white movies of the 21st Century

Are there any? Are there any good ones?

Watched Wayne Wang's '82 Chan is Missing today for the first time (v. good) and wondered this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmu7BYbthY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqv8RwbG4_Q&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v146A5jO_Yg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-1960s_films_in_black-and-white#2000s

Sin City 2005 Yes
Coffee and Cigarettes 2003 No
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 No
In Praise of Love 2001 Yes
Eureka 2000 Yes
Devils on the Doorstep

all worth seeing

How are we defining the question: good movies that happen to be B&W, good movies enhanced by B&W, or movies that simply look good in B&W?

The White Ribbon falls in the first two categoriers.

Control, Sin City and TWR were dope. Tetro looks like it has potential.

Oh yeah -- Tetro.

boringly can only think of The White Ribbon which is of course a fucking masterpiece

Persepolis and Good Night and Good Luck are the first to come to mind, both good movies where the black and white feels essential to what they're trying to do. Eureka and 25 Watts were both great movies that looked good in b&w, but I'm not sure if they would've been that different in colour. Coffee & Cigarettes is uneven, though the best episodes are terrific. It looks good too, but again I can't think of any reason why it needed to be in b&w except that Jarmusch seems to like that. Sin City, Control and The Man Who Wasn't there weren't particularly good, but it's easy to see why they were made in black and white.

dark days

Begotten (which was garbage)

Jarmusch seems to think of concepts just so he can photograph them in B&W.

Surely Begotten is from the 20th century?

Ohhhh duh nevermind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54jn0_ugqco

13 tzameti

have seen few of these...

though i didn't care for the opening scene quoted above, werckmeister harmonies is stunning. as is the white ribbon, or at least really damn good - watched it just last week. otoh, i thought sin city was actively horrible, though i suspect i judged it too harshly and want to see it again. bored by coffee & cigarettes and the man who wasn't there. had a wonderful time with persepolis and would recommend it to anyone. 2nd dark days, which i thought for some reason came out in the late 90s. guess not... umm, and in that spirit, patrice lecont's girl on the bridge, from '99, but close enough to count, right? silly, predictable, probably disposable, but i enjoyed it quite a bit.

no, sin city IS actively horrible - really fucking awful film

need to see werkmeister harmonies

black and white movies are worthless. any film that ignores technical innovation in favor of a throwback to a previous era is inherently destructive.

all non-digital film is a waste of your mind's energy.

Whatever, bro. Nice try though. (3rd movie in this thread is HD)

Mysterious Object At Noon is both 21st century, black and white and "innovative" - also one of the best films of the last 15 years. There are lots of exciting filmmakers working in black and white. Albert Serra's Birdsong another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrlptzWwHk8

and Pedro Costa's "Ne Chnage Rien"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BO8VUtGphY

Also LOL at "non-digital film". Please read your posts before hitting submit

well, we will concede that at least these black and white films had to be converted to pixels in order to be viewed on the internet. it us us who have the last laugh.

(we do not laugh.)

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Part of what was neat about seeing Chan is Missing today is how it is very much 1982 in San Francisco but b&w. Same effect as first third of Stranger Than Paradise and She's Gotta Have It -- made me imagine a b&w movie with cell phones and all. Good to hear all these responses (thought of The White Ribbon right after starting the thread, but totally forgot about Good Night and Good Luck).

I think of Eureka as sepia-toned, not b&w.

yes

it is trash in any colour

Some good suggestions so far (esp. The White Ribbon which is mesmerisingly beautiful to watch and a lot of that rests on the b&w), would also add In Search of a Midnight Kiss.