Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

It's nice going back and watching the old black and white Hollywood movies. Everything was more simple, purer, but honestly, the feeling that I had throughout was what Christopher Nolan said during his best director acceptance speech: that we're not even a hundred years into the art form that is cinema and it's still constantly evolving. I really felt that here. It really felt like there was a lot that has changed in cinema over the last 80-something years. I just kept on thinking about everything else that could be done with the camera, with the blocking, with the acting, etc.

This, don't get me wrong, was still a well-done movie, and I'm sure it was well regarded in its time and is even well regarded now. It doesn't stack up to other black and white old Hollywood movies I've seen ( Casablanca, sweet smell of success) and B: I felt the age of it and the "Restrictions of its time."