6 New Black and White Movies To Watch If You’re Anti-Color

I watched A Field in England, but I’m not sure what I know about it beyond that.

Computer Chess may be weird, but director Ben Wheatley’s English Civil War film makes Computer Chess feel like The Big Bang Theory. Convention is out the window here. Traditional cinematic narrative techniques do not apply. A Field in England begins like it could be an interesting art film, and ends up a full-on avant garde hallucinogenic trip of a movie, a subjective experience of the bad mushrooms the main characters seem to come upon in the titular field.

Strange as it may be, there are a number of moments in the film that are deeply compelling. The photography aids in this, with virtually every image of these men striking the impression of an old black-and-white portrait. It’s an impression that’s compounded by the players posing in tableau form at particular moments of the film. Don’t ask me.

It’s not often you come across mind-bending English Civil War movies, so for anyone lamenting the lack of originality in Hollywood, step up and put your money where your tweeting fingers are.

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