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by FreakLegion 5164 days ago
> Black and white, sepia-tone, deliberate flicker and visual noise

Those are merely effects, and usually gimmicky ones at that. A better example would be something like Kubrick's Barry Lyndon[1]:

"The cinematography and lighting techniques Kubrick used in Barry Lyndon were highly innovative. Most notably, interior scenes were shot with a specially adapted high-speed f/0.7 Zeiss camera lens originally developed for NASA. Many scenes were lit only with candlelight, creating two-dimensional, diffused-light images reminiscent of 18th-century paintings."

The best filmmakers obsess over these kinds of details. If I remember correctly, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures goes into more detail about the techniques Kubrick used in Barry Lyndon[2].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick#Barry_Lyndon_.2...

2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/