Tipped off by the mere hint that Hollywood heavyweight actor Edward Norton would be directing and producing a motion feature based on a novel by Jonathan Lethem, French graphic and motion designer Remy Le Rumeur rolled onto an ambitious venture to create his version of the opening titles to the anticipated “Motherless Brooklyn” movie. Immersing … Continued
No CG (this is 1972, after all), or any other form of film processing was used to create the title sequence for The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe. It’s just magic and a deck of cards. The illusionist’s hands performing the card tricks are Gérard Majax‘s. Majax, who is like the French David … Continued
We receive a lot of emails from young designers asking what they have to do to become a title designer. I always tell them do what Jurjen Versteeg did, and just do it! In 2009, Versteeg, created an unofficial opening title sequence for Sean Penn‘s feature Into the Wild, and was subsequently asked to design … Continued
“French Fridays” on Watch the Titles updates with another rare nugget of French motion design from the 1970s. The entertaining title sequence by Tito Topin and Jed Falby for Les Gaspards serves as a social-political commentary on the gigantic urban development projects in Paris, which transformed parts of the French capital into a big construction … Continued
French Fridays wouldn’t be complete without the “grandmother of the French New Wave,” Agnès Varda.
French Fridays, a guest-curated program on Watch the Titles, updates with a title sequence by one of France’s most well-known title designers: Jean Fouchet. He created a fabulous stop-motion title sequence for L’Homme de Rio (That Man From Rio) – Philippe De Broca’s classic spy-adventure movie whose archeological theme was an important inspiration for George … Continued
Wowie Part 2 is a low-budget art-house short, about an obsessive postman who plots to seduce the object of his desires. The title sequence is a glorious hotch-potch of home-made horror, made with a sharpie and lots of fake blood. Maybe not everyone’s cuppa, as some of your comments on the titles for Wowie Part … Continued
French Fridays on Watch the Titles features the opening credits for Roman Polanski’s first color feature, The Fearless Vampire Killers. The lovely hand-drawn credits were designed by one of the most important French creators of the last decades, André François – one of the first title designers who played with the logo of a major … Continued
In the third edition of French Fridays on Watch the Titles, guest curator Laure Chapalain provides us with some fascinating insights into the main title of Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the masterpieces of the acclaimed French director Jacques Tati. The title sequence comments on the effects on the architectural modernization of post-war … Continued
In part 2 of French Fridays, a new series on Forget the Film, Watch the Titles dedicated to French title design ’50’s – ’80’s, French designer Laure Chapalain takes a closer look at Jean-Luc Godard‘s short typographic main title for Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman Is A Woman) – a musical comedy that … Continued
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