Daisies, 1966Vera Chytilova,

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The Hour Glass Sanataorium, 1973Wojciech Has,

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Days of Heaven, 1978,Terence Malick

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Barry Lyndon, 1975,Stanley Kubrick,

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Kwaidan, 1964,Masaki Kobayashi,

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Peeping Tom, 1960 Micahel Powell,

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Blow Up, 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni,

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A slew of British Made films influenced how colour could be used to tell stories that weren’t cheery or bright. This was colour cinema with an edge and a grime to it, a cinema that wasn’t afraid to push to the fore the mechanism of its creation. This was far removed from the glitz and glamour of Technicolor of American cinema, although that too was about to change. Mi-chael Powell’s PEEPING TOM, was one of his most celebrated solo work pushed the mecha-nism of capturing the image to the fore. Mi-chelangelo Antonioni, 1966 BLOW UP, ni in all his films was incredibly exacting about the colouring in BLOW UP. The story goes that he didn’t like the shades of grass in the open-ing shot, so had it sprayed a different one.

As Europe came to terms with the after-math of WW2, surplus war time camera film flooded the emerging new markets. For the first time in decades young film makers had access to the means of production. With this they created films that looked forward and back simultaneously. DAISIES, Vera Chytilova, 1966Czech New Wave at its best; beautiful ar t direc-tion, amazing location shooting, gorgeous cos-tumes. A film that speaks of youth and deca-dence against a back drop of destruction. THE HOUR GLASS SANATORIUM, Wojciech Has, 1973 Polish surrealism that understands colours and their importance in creating atmosphere.

Black Narcissus, 1947Powell & Pressburger

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The Red Shoes, 1948,Powell & Pressburger,

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Chinatown, 1974Roman Polanski,

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Blade Runner, 1982 Ridley Scott

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Suspiria, Dario , 1977Argento, [Pic left]

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The Big Blue, 1988 Luc Besson,

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2001: Space Odyssey, 1968Stanley Kubrick

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Solaris,, 1972Andrei Tarkovsky,

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Jour Du Fete, 1949Jaques Tati

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Jour Du Fete (colour), 1995Jacques Tati,

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The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001Wes Anderson,

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The Draughtsman’s Contract, 1982 Peter Greenaway,

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Paris Texas, 1984Wim Wenders,

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Mystery Train, 1989Jim Jarmusch

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Underground, 1995Emir Kusturica, 1995

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Amelie, 2001Jeunet & Carol,

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