B&W Blurays on Oled TV

[RockyIII]

Can you post titles of re-mastered B&W movies that would look great on Oled TV?
So far I have only found It Came From Outer Space 3D/Bluray and it was great.
I love B&W classics but the issue is usually poor mastering so the blacks are weak and the whites are muddy.
B&W titles are mostly on 480p DVD format, unfortunately

[Member-167298]

I have a 55" LG 4K OLED. Pretty much any black and white movie from Criterion looks incredible. Most recently I checked out Cat People.

[Arch Stanton]

There are a ton of great looking B&W titles.

Off the top of my head: The Innocents, Yojimbo, Sweet Smell of Success, La dolce vita, 8 1/2, The Apartment, The Third Man

[DVDNGG]

Spider Baby from Arrow should look great on your TV!

[78deluxe]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Can you post titles of re-mastered B&W movies that would look great on Oled TV?
So far I have only found It Came From Outer Space 3D/Bluray and it was great.
I love B&W classics but the issue is usually poor mastering so the blacks are weak and the whites are muddy.
B&W titles are mostly on 480p DVD format, unfortunately

Lots of them.

Check out Criterion + Warner Archive, was well as catalog titles from Warner, 20th Century Fox Classics, MGM, Twilight Time, etc. (and Universal with Hitchcock releases)

Basically find the movie you want and buy it. If it is on Bluray from one of the above, you can expect it to be pretty good.

Releases from Kino and Olive are a little more hit or miss since they don't do as much clean up. Some are really good though.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

There are a ton of great looking B&W titles.

Off the top of my head: The Innocents, Yojimbo, Sweet Smell of Success, La dolce vita, 8 1/2, The Apartment, The Third Man

I have a 2016 LG Oled C6 and most B&W seems to still be avaialble mostly on DVD, which does not let me use this TV to its full capacity of perfect blacks and infinite contrast.
I only own It Came from Outer Space in 3D/Bluray and it looks fantastic!

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by DVDNGG

Spider Baby from Arrow should look great on your TV!

Found this review...seems accurate?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Spide...lu-ray/125387/

[joenostalgia23]

Lots of great b/w films from Criterion and Warner Archive as others have mentioned. Can't go wrong with any of the noir classics. To add onto the other films mentioned, I'd go with The Night if the Hunter, some of my favorite black and white photography ever.

If you want a b/w film to really show off the OLED's contrast abilities, I would go with newer films like 2005's Sin City though. It's shot digitally and technically has color, but it looks amazing on the OLED. Lots of infinite black.

Also Mad Max Fury Road Black and Chrome Edition.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by joenostalgia23

Lots of great b/w films from Criterion and Warner Archive as others have mentioned. Can't go wrong with any of the noir classics. To add onto the other films mentioned, I'd go with The Night if the Hunter, some of my favorite black and white photography ever.

If you want a b/w film to really show off the OLED's contrast abilities, I would go with newer films like 2005's Sin City though. It's shot digitally and technically has color, but it looks amazing on the OLED. Lots of infinite black.

Also Mad Max Fury Road Black and Chrome Edition.

I was referring to B&W Classics more than just ANY B&W titles. Films that were originally shot in B&W and possibly re-mastered in bluray so that the full potential of my Oled TV can be put to work

[DVDNGG]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Found this review...seems accurate?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Spide...lu-ray/125387/

You won't be disappointed with the Video Quality.

[CinemaScope]

A couple of years ago good looking b/w films were a bit thin on the ground, but there's tons now, just look at the great looking Warner Archive releases:

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (Warner Archive)
Out of the Past (1947) (Warner)
Possessed (1947) (Warner)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1942) (Warner)
42nd Street (1933) (Warner / MGM)
Murder, My Sweet (1944) (Warner)
Passage to Marseille (1944) (Warner)
The Wrong Man (1957) Warner)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
I Confess (1952) (Warner)
The Big Sleep (1946) (Warner Archive)
Key Largo (1948) (Warner Archive)
Suspicion (1941) (Warner)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (Warner)
Father of the Bride (1950) (Warner/ MGM)
Dark Passage (1947) (Warner)
To Have and Have Not (1944) (Warner/MGM )
On Dangerous Ground (1951) (Warner/RKO)
Battleground

And Universal's Frankenstein Legacy Collection is well worth having.

[lilboyblu]

These are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head...

[HD Goofnut]

If you decide on 12 Angry Men make sure to get the region free DE disc as it has better PQ compared to the Criterion disc.

[javi92]

Looks outstanding.

[WhySoBlu?]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

If you decide on 12 Angry Men make sure to get the region free DE disc as it has better PQ compared to the Criterion disc.

Given his penchant for watching everything with motion interpolation cranked up to eleven, I don't think it'll make any difference which disc he gets.

[HD Goofnut]

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by WhySoBlu?

Given his penchant for watching everything with motion interpolation cranked up to eleven, I don't think it'll make any difference which disc he gets.

Why would anyone want to do that?

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Why would anyone want to do that?

Maybe he likes the soap opera effect.

[MechaGodzilla]

Out of the Past. Amazing film and it looks amazing too.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by JoeDeM

Maybe he likes the soap opera effect.

I don't understand how anyone could like that. Film is supposed to like film not video.