Low-Tech Movies You Should See

I am a movie snob. I have a degree that gives me permission to be this way. Considering the tremendous amount of money my parents forked over to the university I went to so I could earn that piece of paper I think that truly entitles me to the right to be a movie snob. It wasn't my actual major but my minor and it technically is called Film Theory and Criticism.

The great thing about getting this minor is that you spend a lot of time watching movies. The other great thing is that you got to watch a lot of older movies. Older movies are things a lot of people don't think about these days. I know some people who don't even want to consider looking at a movie that isn't in color. It's like there is an entire generation who thinks the history of movies started with "The Godfather" and then advanced from there. Good lord, it would be unthinkable to consider watching a movie that's in black and white.

The problem with that line of thinking is the tremendous amount of great movies that are not being watched by large generations of people. Of course, watching something in black and white and older than 1970 seems counter-intuitive to modern home film watchers. The problem is that the modern home watchers all have these high-tech fancy crystal-clear DVD machines with state-of-the-art sound. The fact that older black and white movies are often a tad blurry or indistinct means that most don't want to consider watching them. I think this is wrong.

So, get out that Netflix list and start jotting. I am going to shock and amaze you. Ok, really, I am just making another list, but it sounds so much better to suggest I am going to shock and amaze you. In fact, I am going to suggest that you go back further than the 1940s for movies. In fact, I am going to suggest you go back to the beginning of cinema. Yes, I am suggesting you find some titles that are so low-tech that they don't even have sound.