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Fifty shades of grey
By Ben Mk
Before the advent of color film stock, films were produced in black and white out of plain old necessity. But even after filmmaking crossed the threshold into glorious technicolor in the 1950's, the black and white format continued to retain a certain artistic integrity that filmmakers still embrace to this day. From modern classics like The Elephant Man, Raging Bull and Ed Wood to the recent Much Ado About Nothing, Frances Ha and Nebraska, monochromaticity is far from dead. In fact, as Alexander Payne's Nebraska so perfectly illustrates, sometimes it's the only way to tell a story.
