Stylish credits: list great examples

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Hey!!! Can you smart people help me? I'm teaching a workshop about how to do visual effects with Adobe Aftereffects. The main project will be to design a cool looking title sequence. I'm going to make a compilation of stylish titles from movies to show just for fun and inspiration. I have a few in mind. Can anybody add some, especially with more obscure, older, avante garde things? even better, can you tell me anything about the designers so I can have some smart shit to tell people??

Here's a few picked at random.

Style:
Metropolis
Psycho (and Saul Bass)
Bros. Quay, perhaps.
Casino
Cape Fear remake
Fistful of Dollars
Snatch
Seconds
Pi
Mouse Hunt (would The Ring be worth checking out?)
Dr. Strangelove

Technique:
Monsters Inc.
Catch Me if You Can
Kid Stay in the Picture

And recommended to me for work by Imaginary Forces' Kyle Cooper:
Seven
Island of Dr. Moreau remake w/Brando
Spiderman 1

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

School of Rock
Ed Wood
Stigmata
The Pink Panther
The Age of Innocence
Spawn
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

And although I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, the end credits from Citizen Kane are classic.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The closing credits to Soderbergh's "Solaris" remake had quite striking 70s epic retro quality.

― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The opening for Se7en, by the aformentioned Imaginary Forces group, is some of the most brilliant and innovative AE work I've ever seen.

It obviously isn't AE work, but I always loved the titles/intertitles on Godard's late-60's flicks, especially "Weekend". I know a lot of graphic designers/filmmakers who are utilizing Illustrator vector graphics & AE to do similar, "retro" stuff.

Lastly, I hated the film, but the opening credits for "Hannibal" were pretty slick.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, those are good examples.

Reminds me... I kind of liked "the mummy" with brendan fraser for being cheesy fun. I hated "the mummy returns" But then the end credits were so cool, i felt paid back for having to watch the rest of it.

i was lucky enough to meet Pink Panther credits animator and Roger Rabbit animation director Richard Williams on a book tour a few years ago, got to hear him show & tell about doing those.

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

24 Hour Party People

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And let's not forget Brakhage's hand-scratched credits.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Pierrot le Fou

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dawn of the Dead remake. Better than the rest of the movie, and I quite liked the rest of the movie.

― DFM, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Although he's mostly famous for his work on the James Bond movies, Maurice Binder's other title credits work is pretty awesome, especially Charade and Arabesque

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

More recently, I really liked the giant floating letters in Panic Room and the retro animation in Catch Me If You Can

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the good, the bad, and the ugly

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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yeah, i remember the panic room credits... which is saying something. they were cool; very hitchcock-esque, but obviously modern.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite opening credits are the ones that aren't there: Star Wars. Say what you will about the films, but it's so damn refreshing not to be forced to stare at a bunch of names before the movie starts.

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Intolerable Cruelty has great, great, credits. The Victorian valentine thing = priceless, and Geoffery Rush's precredits cameo isn't to be missed.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

L'Avventura. Not so much on the merit of the credits themselves, but more b/c of the music. You can never seem to forget it. Or I can't, at least.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

opening credits for A-L-I-E-N

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big fan of the front-loaded credits ca. 1940. Michel Carne's for Les Enfants are really good, just because they're non-distracting and overlay (if I remember correctly) some fantastic placesetting in the background.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Goldmine
Catch Me If You Can

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the credits of "the wing and the tigh" featurign whirling cooking gear and psychedelicaly colored shots taekn from a driving car and a disco soundtrack have fuck all to do with the movie but are very awesome.

― :|, Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i finally got around to seeing "the dreamers" - not good. but a great opening credit sequence (vertical pan down the eiffel tower, super-stylized 60s font, evoked a strip of film racing through the projector, etc.)

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The credits for "Burn!/Queimada!" are pretty cool. The sequence consists of stills from the film that dissolve as if if they had been burned. No fire is seen, but you do hear flames synched up w/the action.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

test

― ||| (amateurist), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Spider-Man 2 had a really great title sequence that the movie never really lived up to!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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