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Funny Games

One of the most disturbing movies I've seen in along time and not really that enjoyable but loved this poster.

A Brief History of Title Design

Via Clusta

The Walking Dead

I hope these really are the opening credits to The Walking Dead - the new television series based on Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore's graphic novel - they feature imagery from the original comic books and what sounds like an Eels track.

Banksy vs The Simpsons

Enter The Void

Interesting piece in The Guardian by Anne Billson (you can read the full article here) about the significance of opening film credits and there potential to act as an exhilarating launch pad to give a film lift off, and what a shame it is when films dispense with them all together. Billson makes reference to Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void, a fast paced and unusual film, which begins with opening credits of a "rare intensity: big throbbing letters in English and Japanese, pulsating so rapidly they're almost reduced to a stream of subliminal imagery. You can see it for yourself below, but beware if you suffer from epilepsy...

Anne Billson also refers to Saul Bass's work, and the opening sequence to North by Northwest which was then brilliantly used as inspiration for the credits for David Fincher's Panic Room...

And a still from the North by Northwest...

Thanks to James for a heads up on the last couple of posts.