Favorite Main Titles (1 Viewer)

[Sultanofcinema]

Folks are currently still discussing their favorite James Bond Title Sequences. How about all...of the other films that exist with innovative, very different and or out of this world title sequences (Barbarella) that are wonderful. Saul Bass always comes to mind, but so do Maurice Binder's titles for Deadfall and The Tamarind Seed. I love the titles for 1967's The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Liquidator and North By Northwest.

 

[FincherFan]

Panic Room

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher's remake)

 

[mskaye]

Panic Room

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher's remake)

off the top of my head ... Touch of Evil. Kiss Me Deadly. Spartacus. Dr. Strangelove. Imitation of Life. The Wild Bunch. Seconds. Psycho. How surprising? lots of Saul Bass! PS -The Wild Bunch has the most inspired director's credit of all time.

 

[Walter P. Thatcher]

So many great title sequences to choose from. I repeat the above choices and add my 2 cents: Saul Bass's split-screen/multiplied frames start to "Grand Prix". Pasolini's "The Hawks and the Sparrows" with Morricone's brilliant choice of having singer Domenico Modugno sing the credits. The coldly spoken "unwritten" credits of "Fahrenheit 451" with Bernard Herrmann's tense score. The quirky opening title of "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" with a falling, blissful Dustin Hoffman, reminiscent of Waring Hudsucker's swan dive out of the board room.

 

[Sultanofcinema]

So many great title sequences to choose from. I repeat the above choices and add my 2 cents: Saul Bass's split-screen/multiplied frames start to "Grand Prix". Pasolini's "The Hawks and the Sparrows" with Morricone's brilliant choice of having singer Domenico Modugno sing the credits. The coldly spoken "unwritten" credits of "Fahrenheit 451" with Bernard Herrmann's tense score. The quirky opening title of "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" with a falling, blissful Dustin Hoffman, reminiscent of Waring Hudsucker's swan dive out of the board room.

Wow, someone actually remembers this film and I saw it theatrically in an empty theater!

 

[Walter P. Thatcher]

. . . . . I forgot "Murder by Death" with the Charles Addams pop-up book credits!

 

[Cineman]

Vertigo
Spartacus
North by Northwest
Psycho
The Man With The Golden Arm
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Goldfinger
The Birds
Deadpool
The Man Who Knew Too Much ('56)
Gone With The Wind
My Fair Lady
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Gigi
Lolita

 

[Sultanofcinema]

I know this may sound wacky, but I love the extended credits over the opening of Russ Myers Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

That Man From Rio has a nice credit score.

 

[Thomas T]

Some of my favorite credit sequences and all enhanced by their scores.

1. Robert Stack racing his sportscar toward home only to be shot to death in Written On The Wind (1956). The title song by The Four Aces plays over the credits.
2. The early in the morning film studio coming to life in Harlow (1965). Neal Hefti's score starts out softly and slowly builds as the studio get busier.
3. The beautiful color (watercolor?) drawings of Dong Kingman of 1900 Peking in 55 Days At Peking (1963). Dimitri Tiomkin's imposing score plays over the credits.
4. James Mason methodically painting Sue Lyon's toe nails in Lolita (1962). Nelson Riddle's seductive music adds a layer of eroticism.

 

[cadavra]

No one's mentioned A SHOT IN THE DARK yet.

 

[WinstonCely]

Casino is one of my favorites as is To Kill a Mockingbird.