When done well, opening titles can be an invaluable device for setting up a film’s mood, themes, interests. This month, the FilmFisher crew paid homage to the largely lost art of the title sequence by selecting their favorites.
Timothy Lawrence
Tom Upjohn
- The Graduate (1967)
- Se7en (1995)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Watchmen (2009)
- (500) Days of Summer (2009)
A.C. Gleason
- Apocalypse Now
- Star Wars
- The Godfather
- Rio Bravo
- Back To The Future
Robert Brown
- North by Northwest (1959)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Babe (1995)
- You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Travis Kyker
Joshua Gibbs
The Panic Room and four others.
Robert Heckert
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
- Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse
- The Incredibles
- Baby Driver
Jackson De Vight
- Lord of War
- Deadpool
- Dr. Strangelove
- Fargo
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
William Connor Devlin
- Superman (1978, dir. Richard Donner)
- Re-Animator (1985, dir. Stuart Gordon)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, dir. Joe Johnston)
- Blue Valentine (2010, dir. Derek Cianfrance)
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright)
Honorable Mentions: Pillow Talk (1959), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
1 Comment
I thought the opening title for Tintin was excellent and perfectly captured the spirit of the original comics. I also loved Psycho’s opening with the tense and riveting score.