LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013 Music38 & Movies ‘Nebraska’ continues allure of black-and-white

This undated image originally released by United Artists shows, from left, hip hop artists Gza, Rza and actor Bill Murray from the Jim Jarmusch film “Coffee and Cigarettes.” This 1980 file photo originally re- leased by United Artists shows Rob- This undated publicity photo released by the Indepen- ert De Niro as boxer Jake La Motta in dent Film Channel shows Greta Gerwig, right, as Frances, In this 1971 film image originally the film “Raging Bull.”—AP photos with Adam Driver as Lev having dinner in a scene from released by Columbia Pictures, Timo- the film, “Frances Ha.” thy Bottoms, left, and Jeff Bridges are lack-and-white movies are a rarity today, of black-and-white films in recent decades than any other renown and was eventually inducted into the National shown in a scene from the Peter Bogda- course, but they nevertheless cling to a persistent place. Woody Allen has often utilized black-and-white, Film Registry. In “Killer of Sheep,” black-and-white helps novich film “The Last Picture Show”. Band exceptional existence among more flashy fare including the newsreel style of “Zelig” and the Fellini- strip Burnett’s film down to its bare naturalism. Like at the multiplexes. Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska,” which esque “Stardust Memories.” 1979’s “Manhattan,” shot by “Nebraska,” it’s a monochrome portrait of poverty, albeit opens tomorrow in limited release, follows several no- Gordon Willis, famously begins with Allen’s Isaac Davis in a very different part of the country. table films this year that have opted for monochrome practicing an introduction: “To him, no matter what the “Others Worth Mentioning”: Martin Scorsese’s boxing over color, including Noah Baumbach’s New York tale season was, this was still a town that existed in black epic “Raging Bull,” the mock documentary “Man Bites “Frances Ha” and Joss Whedon’s Shakespeare-on-the- and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Dog,” Kevin Smith’s convenience store comedy “Clerks,” cheap “Much Ado About Nothing.” Gershwin.” Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winning World War I Filled with handsome, austere plains photography, “Pi”: The New York of Darren Aronofsky’s 1998 debut tale “The White Ribbon,” Bela Tarr’s Hungarian drama “Nebraska” is a Midwest road trip film about an aging bears none of the romanticism of Allen’s “Manhattan.” “The Turin Horse,” Wim Wenders’ angels-among-us father (Bruce Dern) and his son (Will Forte). As a studio Made incredibly cheaply and filmed illicitly on the fantasy “Wings of Desire,” Christopher Nolan’s noir release (Paramount) and a film set in contemporary subway, the high contrast black and-white of “Pi” - “Following.”—AP times, “Nebraska” is unusual among modern black-and- blotchy and grubby - is more in the surreal style of white films, which have tended to be independently David Lynch’s horror film “Eraserhead.” Aronofsky was This film image released by Roadside Attractions made or period pieces. Usually black-and-white inspired by Frank Miller’s comic book “Sin City,” which shows Amy Acker, left, and Jillian Morgesen in a years later was made into a highly stylized, mostly is attempted by ambitious young filmmakers or scene from “Much Ado About Nothing.” veterans with enough industry pull. Payne has said his black-and-white film. A world without color can be a “Nebraska” was budgeted for less because it was in strange, unsettling place. black-and-white and considered to have less box-office “Stranger Than Paradise”: Jim Jarmusch has been potential as a result. one of the most frequent practitioners of black-and- Yet audiences have proven open-minded about white filmmaking. In 1984’s minimalist “Stranger Than black-and-white: The crowd-pleasing 2011’s “The Paradise” - as well as the jailbreak drama “Down by Law,” Artist” won best picture without the benefit of color or the Western “Dead Man” and the absurdist vignette sound, just as did Steven Spielberg’s black-and-white series “Coffee and Cigarettes” - Jarmusch’s colorless “Schindler’s List” (1993). As an iconoclastic group, palette only adds to his deadpan sensibility. modern black-and-white movies stand out for their “The Man Who Wasn’t There”: The Coen brothers and classical photography and their willful connection to their usual cinematographer, Roger Deakins, fashioned an earlier period of filmmaking. Here are a handful of one of the most beautiful black-and-white films of memorable examples: recent years in this 2001 film, joining noir shadows with “Paper Moon”: Peter Bogdanovich made 1973’s the constant cigarette smoke emanating from Billy Bob Depression-era father-daughter tale “Paper Moon” Thornton’s dour barber. But sometimes great love of as well as 1971’s Texas coming-of-age story “The black-and-white photography can suffocate a film with Last Picture Show” in black-and-white. Both films, nostalgia. Steven Soderbergh’s “The Good German” particularly the Midwest-set “Paper Moon” (a cherished (2006), while a loving ode to films like “The Third Man,” favorite of Payne’s), were inspirations for “Nebraska.” felt stuck in the past. Bogdanovich once said color made the Texas town of “Killer Of Sheep”: In this 1979 cult classic, Charles “The Last Picture Show” “too pretty”: “There’s something Burnett brought black-and-white Italian neorealism Alexander Payne, center, director of “Nebraska,” poses with cast members, left to right, Stacy mysterious and enriching about black and white. Color to the ‘70s ghetto of Watts in Los Angeles. The film is too realistic,” he said. was seldom seen for years because of fights over the Keach, June Squibb, Bruce Dern and Will Forte at the 2013 AFI Fest premiere of the film at the TCL “Manhattan”: New York has probably inspired more licensing of music in the film, but it steadily grew in Chinese Theatre on Monday.

Police: NYC musician-gunman had 100 rounds of ammo

Police officer talks with a man carrying a guitar near a crime scene in the Brooklyn section of New York, Monday.—AP gunman was carrying about 100 members weren’t home at the time of rounds of ammunition in five the bloodshed and weren’t harmed. A A magazines when he set out on message posted Tuesday on the band’s a bloody rampage through a Brooklyn Facebook site and attributed to the apartment, killing two brothers who survivors read, “Thanks every one for played in an Iranian indie rock band all your prayers and condolences.” The French actress Melanie Bernier poses during a photocall for the film “Au bonheur des ogres” yesterday, at the Rome International Film and another musician, police said pair added that they “still can’t believe Festival.—AFP Tuesday. Ali Akbar Mohammadi Rafie this tragedy.” fired several rounds early Monday be- The row house in the industrial fore he used his rifle to kill himself on neighborhood of East Williamsburg where the victims lived had been a the roof the apartment building where hangout for artists who attended The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store four members of the band Yellow Dogs parties there. The musicians all knew lived together, police said. Afterward, one another, a band manager said. Top Songs investigators recovered 81 unfired Originally from Tehran, the Yellow 1. “The Monster (feat. Rihanna)”, Eminem rounds, some of them in magazines Dogs were the subject of a 2009 film, 2. “Royals”, Lorde stashed in a guitar case found on an “No One Knows about Persian Cats,” 3. “Say Something (feat. Christina Aguilera)”, A Great Big World adjoining rooftop. which told the semi-fictional tale of 4. “Counting Stars”, OneRepublic Records show the Spanish-made a band that played illegal rock shows 5. “Roar”, Katy Perry assault weapon was purchased by there. After coming to New York, the 6. “Wake Me Up”, Avicii someone else at an upstate New group played at small but hip venues 7. “Timber (feat. Ke$ha)”, Pitbull York shop that went out of business like the Knitting Factory and Brooklyn 8. “Wrecking Ball”, Miley Cyrus in 2006, said Police Commissioner Bowl. 9. “Let Her Go”, Passenger Raymond Kelly. “We don’t know “They were great kids who people 10. “Demons”, Imagine Dragons precisely how Rafie obtained it,” Kelly just loved,” said the manager, Ali said. Investigators believe the shooter Salehezadeh. “They looked cool and Top Albums was upset about being kicked out of they played great music. ... They the Free Keys, another Iranian band 1. “The Marshall Mathers LP 2 “, Eminem wanted to be known for their music.” 2. “Pure Heroine”, Lorde with close ties to the Yellow Dogs. Kelly The third man killed was identified as 3. “PTX, Vol. 2”, Pentatonix described him as “despondent” about Ali Eskandarian, an Iranian-American 4. “ARTPOP”, Lady Gaga no longer being in the band. singer-songwriter who had been living A fourth man was still hospitalized in the apartment above the Yellow 5. “PRISM “, Katy Perry with arm and shoulder wounds, police Dogs.—AP 6. “Nothing Was the Same”, Drake said. The two slain members of the 7. “Church Clothes, Vol. 2”, Lecrae Yellow Dogs were brothers Arash 8. “Avril Lavigne”, Avril Lavigne and Soroush Farazmand. Two other 9. “Loved Me Back to Life”, Céline Dion 10. “Same Trailer Different Park”, Kacey Musgraves—Reuters