Worth Your Time: The Art of the Title
From their About page:
Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?
Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could tell…if only the show was based on those illustrations.
Well, we want to see more of that. So watch and remember and create.
I’ve been subscribed to Art of the Title for some time now, but it wasn’t until their recent coverage of Tarsem’s The Fall that I realized just how wonderful it is. I’ve been enamored of movies’ title sequences since high school, when I saw North By Northwest for the first time. Peppering bits of their own analysis among that of the films’ directors, crew, and—hell, even the occasional typographer, The Art of the Title does a fine job of explaining just that: the delicate, thoughtful care invested in designing a movie’s opening moments.
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