Tarkovsky on Color vs Black-and-White Cinema

Excerpt from the 9 September 1982 conference "Thieves of Cinema" (Ladri di cinema) in Rome, with Andrei Tarkovsky.
The Russian master makes an argument about the superiority of black-and-white over color cinema, and gives an example where the necessity of black-and-white is evident.
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[@behemoth5344]

I tried to imagine if Umberto D. had been shot in Technicolor, and felt a little sick....
Thanks for the upload.

[@antoinepetrov]

Yeah, same. Also Bicycle Thieves... Unthinkable

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

said the man who made one of the best looking colored movies ever

[@TheGyroBarqusShow]

It's actually all his colored films, they look gorgeous but they add to not take from the film.