Colors of Film

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Charles Bramesco is a film and television critic living in Brooklyn. In addition to the Guardian, his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Little White Lies, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Nylon, Vulture, Frieze, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox, and Pitchfork. He is the author of Vampire Movies (Little White Lies for William Collins, 2019).

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Colors of Film is an introduction to film through the lens of color. Taking you from the 1940s to today, it showcases the most extraordinary use of color and provides visually appealing palettes of some of the best movies ever made.

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Introduction
1 OVER THE RAINBOW
Post-facto Colorization
A Trip to the Moon, Méliès
Intolerance, Griffith
The Wizard of Oz, Fleming
Fantasia, Disney
Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger
The River, Renoir
Singin' in the Rain, Donen & Kelly
All That Heaven Allows, Sirk
The Searchers, Ford
Vertigo, Hitchcock
Lawrence of Arabia, Lean
2 UNBOUND IMAGINATIONS
Kodak and Fujifilm
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Demy
Red Desert, Antonioni
Color Me Blood Red, Lewis
2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick
Cries and Whispers, Bergman
Touki Bouki, Mambéty
Bobby, Kapoor
Don't Look Now, Roeg
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder
Jeanne Dielman …, Akerman
God Told Me To, Cohen
Suspiria, Argento
Ran, Kurosawa
3 MAKING A STATEMENT
Color Theory
Blue Velvet, Lynch
Dick Tracy, Beatty
Blue, Jarman
Schindler's List, Spielberg
Three Colors trilogy, Kieslowski
Chungking Express, Wong
Seven, Fincher
Belly, Williams
Peppermint Candy, Lee
The Virgin Suicides, Coppola
But I'm a Cheerleader, Babbit
Songs from the Second Floor, Andersson
Traffic, Soderbergh
Amélie, Jeunet
Spirited Away, Miyazaki
4 DIGITAL WONDERLANDS
The Color TV
The Aviator, Scorsese
Saw II, Bousman
Speed Racer, Wachowski & Wachowski
Enter the Void, Noé
Amer, Cattet & Forzani
Tron: Legacy, Kosinski
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson
Mad Max: Fury Road, Miller
La La Land, Chazelle
Black Panther, Coogler
Lovers Rock, McQueen
Further Reading
Picture Credits & Acknowledgments
Index