Thursday, February 3, 2011

GET PERSONAL: SAUL BASS

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Title design is often overlooked when thinking critically about film, but almost no one handled titles more gracefully than Saul Bass. His use of color, shape, and symbolism evoke aspects of American pop-art and Soviet propaganda posters. Instead of featuring movie-star beauty shots, Bass’s posters intellectualize the film, whittling down the entire premise into one visual metaphor. Credits include: The Age of Innocence (1992), Cape Fear (1991), Goodfellas (1989), Big (1987), The Victors (1963), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Walk on the Wild Side (1961), West Side Story (1960), Spartacus (1960), Ocean's Eleven (1960),  Psycho (1959), North by Northwest (1959), Anatomy of a Murder (1958), Vertigo (1958), The Young Stranger (1957), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).

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