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Front Row: The resurgence of black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva

28/10/2021

The resurgence of black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The resurgence of black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva

Black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva.

What's behind the resurgence of black and white films? Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva on collaborating with an algorithm.

Monochrome is having a moment at this year’s awards season in films such as Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth and C’mon C’mon. To discuss the comeback of black and white and its enduring appeal, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Edu Grau, Director of Photography for Passing and Ellen Kuras, who won the Cinematography Award at Sundance for her debut feature film, Swoon, shot in black and white in 1992. She’s since become the first woman to receive the American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award and is about to embark on Lee, a biopic of the black and white photographer, Lee Miller.

As the 2022 Oscar nominees are announced, we talk to Maggie Gyllenhaal who is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay with The Lost Daughter, the actor’s directorial debut, as well as Andrew Garfield, who bagged a best actor nomination for musical tick, tick... BOOM! Husband and wife animation team Les Mills and Joanna Quinn, writer and director respectively about their Best Animated Film-nominated Affairs of the Art also join us. Film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Leila Latif provide analysis.

And we discuss a new experimental drama for Radio 4, An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love, which sees writer Hannah Silva collaborate with a machine-learning algorithm to create an audio guide to romance.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Simon Richardson
Production co-ordinator: Lizzy Harris

Photo: Ruth Negga as Clare Bellew and Tessa Thompson as Irene "Reenie” Redfield in the film Passing
Credit: Netflix

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