If Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma lifts the best picture award, it will follow in the footsteps of The Artist, Schindler’s List and others, but black-and-white films are not always what they seem
If Roma takes home the best picture Oscar in nine days’ time, it will be only eight years since another black-and-white film achieved the same feat – The Artist in 2012. “I wanted to do a modern film that looks into the past,” Alfonso Cuarón, Roma’s writer, director and cinematographer told Emmanuel Lubezki, Oscar-winning director of photography on Cuarón’s Gravity. “It’s not a vintage black and white. It’s a contemporary black and white. Black and white was part of the DNA of the film.”
Roma was filmed in colour and converted to black and white in post-production, with the tonal values manipulated to achieve the desired look. This is how most black and white films are made now,...
If Roma takes home the best picture Oscar in nine days’ time, it will be only eight years since another black-and-white film achieved the same feat – The Artist in 2012. “I wanted to do a modern film that looks into the past,” Alfonso Cuarón, Roma’s writer, director and cinematographer told Emmanuel Lubezki, Oscar-winning director of photography on Cuarón’s Gravity. “It’s not a vintage black and white. It’s a contemporary black and white. Black and white was part of the DNA of the film.”
Roma was filmed in colour and converted to black and white in post-production, with the tonal values manipulated to achieve the desired look. This is how most black and white films are made now,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
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