Opening Titles: Hostage
Since my duo post colleague and I will be looking at this 2005 film next week, I thought to highlight an aspect some have overlooked. Hostage‘s…
Read articleOpening Titles and Song: Dr. Strangelove
Whether you’ve noticed or not, I’ve been on a music motif this month. Still, I haven’t entirely abandoned movies. So when song and film coalesce, I…
Read articleMovie Title Sequence: Experiment in Terror
This is the relatively simple movie titles sequence to Blake Edwards’ stellar film, Experiment in Terror (1962). Yet, the opening remains one of the eminently moodiest in…
Read articleMovie Title Sequence: Total Recall
“If I am not me, then who the hell am I?” — Douglas Quaid With today’s opening of Len Wiseman’s remake to one of the all-time best, and bloodiest,…
Read articleTwenty-five Years Today: Top Gun
In honor of the summer-movie spectacle that debuted 25 years ago today, the Tony Scott-directed, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Tom Cruise action film, I contributed a retrospective…
Read articleForty Years Today: Get Carter
In honor of director Mike Hodges‘ gem of a crime film, that debuted 40 years ago today (and for which Ed Copeland offers an appreciation of…
Read articleA Brief But Gorgeous Bit of Titles
The clever folks over at The Art of the Title Sequence have put together a short film for tonight’s opening of the SXSW “Title Design Finalists…
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