This video reminds me of Uncredited: Graphic Design and Opening Titles in Movies, a book I reviewed for Film & History in 2008. The veritable explosion of love for movies titles online since then (in addition to Art of the Title, there’s The Movie Titles Stills Collection and Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screens Page) warms my heart.
Number fourteen on Where Danger Lives’ marvelous “100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir” list.
“You may remember that during the first part [of North by Northwest] all sorts of things happen to the hero with such bewildering rapidity that he doesn’t know what it’s all about. Anyway, Cary Grant came up to me and said, ‘It’s a terrible script. We’ve already done a third of the picture and I still can’t make head or tail of it.’ … Without realizing it he was using a line of his own dialogue.”
—Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock, by François Truffaut
“You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.”
—Cary Grant, To Catch a Thief
(Via Walker Lamond.)
The poster for Terrence Malick’s new film The Tree of Life:
Even better is the trailer, which, though only 2 minutes and 11 seconds long, might actually be the best movie of 2010. Go watch. Now.
Over at Clothes on Film, Matt Spaiser analyzes Sean Connery’s clothing in Dr. No:
Throughout Dr. No, Sean Connery wears five unique tailored ensembles. Each outfit is simple, classic and worthy of imitation. The idea was to put Bond in suits that were distinctly British, but keep things simple because a secret agent should never stand out. Yet because of this simplicity, the clothes still look fresh today.
Now I want to read Spaiser, who runs the blog The Suits of James Bond, on Connery’s clothing in From Russia With Love, my favorite, and arguably the best, Bond film.
Related post: “Cary Grant’s Suit.”
Elizabeth Tamny argues that Jeff Bridges is the best smoker in movie history:
“There has never been a smoker like Bridges in films, and when I say that I am thinking of all film smokers and all smoking movies, from Bogie to Now, Voyager. Bridges’ relationship with things he lights on fire and sticks in his mouth creates a parallel world of expression in film that he uses to great advantage and it deserves some recognition beyond the tiny gold cigarette that must be dangling from the mouth of his Oscar.”
What’s weird is that I’ve never really thought of Bridges as a smoker par excellence before, but after reading Tamny’s piece, yes, of course, duh. I love criticism like this.
(Via Roger Ebert.)
Related post: “Cigarettes Are Sublime.”
From Giant (1956):
(Via Boing Boing.)
Harmonica (Charles Bronson), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
Via If We Don’t, Remember Me, home of the subtlest, and the best, cinematic animated GIFs I’ve ever seen.
Related reading: “The Glorious GIF Renaissance.”
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