I venture to guess that when Godard made "Breathless", he was indeed very limited on budget. However, he might have prefered B&W as well, being nostalgic to Hollywood gangster movies of the 30's and 40's. When he made musicals, he used color, just like the Hollywood musicals. I actually enjoy the abundance of flare, grain and low contrast in those B&W movies, "Breathless" and Jacques Demy's "Lola", and so on. They are quite Frankisque! I think I'll visit Nantes sometime and take some flary, grainy, low contrast and blurry B&W pictures:-)
Yefei > > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:07:24 -0800 > From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > In the thirties and forties color was VERY expensive and > complex to shoot, and B&W was used often for cost reasons, > not for artiustic concerns. This was true to a lesser extent > in the fifties and sixties. Shooting color in its early > years requirted incredibly bright, hot, and expensive > lighting, and the only process available was Technicolor, a > process that had, at the time, numerous faults and was > expensive to process and print, as well as problematical > contarctual requirements between Technicolor and the studios. > > Shel >
