Category Archives: cinema

cinema, Film notes, films to watch

Elaine and Saul Bass

Elaine and Saul Bass: Movie posters and title sequences

 

Saul Bass (wikipedia)

Elaine Makatura Bass (wikipedia)

Casino (1995) title sequence article.

“Ace’s body, or soul, rises and falls within a fiery Las Vegas purgatory.” (Art of the Title Casino article)

Casino (1995) title sequence screenshots (Movie Title Stills Collection)

Saul Bass: Famous title sequences from Preminger to Scorsese

The Title Design of Saul and Elaine Bass (Art of the Title)

Selected filmography:

Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock

North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock

Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick

Ocean’s 11 (1960) Lewis Milestone

Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese

Cape Fear (1991) Martin Scorsese

The Age of Innocence (1993) Martin Scorsese

Casino (1995) Martin Scorsese

Movie posters:

Poster by Saul Bass. The Shining (1980) via wikimedia

Poster by Saul Bass. Vertigo (1958) via wikimedia

films to watch, notes, trips, viajes

Films set in San Francisco


The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola


Harold and Maude (1971) Hal Ashby


The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77) William Hale TV Series


Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Don Siegel


Blue Jasmine (2013) Woody Allen


Play It Again, Sam (1972) Herbert Ross | Diane Keaton and Woody Allen |


The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols


The Man in the High Castle (2015) Created by Frank Spotnitz
TV Series.


Chan is Missing (1982) Wayne Wang


The Rock (1996) Michael Bay


Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock


Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston


Dogfight (1991) Nancy Savoca


Zodiac (2007) David Fincher.


Tales of the City (1993)  Alastair Reid Miniseries


The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock


Dirty Harry (1971) Don Siegel


Milk (2008) Gus Van Sant


Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) Rob Cohen


Bullitt (1968) Peter Yates


And the Band Played On (1993) Roger Spottiswoode (TV docudrama)


Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) Robert Stone


Patty Hearst (1988) Paul Schrader


American Graffiti (1973) George Lucas


The Joy Luck Club (1993) Wayne Wang

via wikimedia

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985) Wayne Wang


San Francisco (1936) Woody Van Dyke | Clark Gable & Jeanette MacDonald |


Dark Passage (1947) Delmer Daves | Bogart & Bacall


Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Chris Columbus


Big Trouble in Little China (1986) John Carpenter