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      Saul Bass’s iconic title treatment for Anatomy of a Murder had us reflecting on some of our other favorites in the collection. What are yours?

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  • By Manuel Martinez Maldonado
    February 28, 2012
    05:02 PM

    Definitely north by northwest...
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  • By Sidney
    February 28, 2012
    05:35 PM

    Psycho, Kiss Me Deadly, Juno, North By Northwest, and Vertigo.
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    • By Gord
      December 26, 2012
      02:26 AM

      +1 Kiss Me, Deadly

  • By AP
    February 28, 2012
    05:37 PM

    My Man Godfrey!
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  • By Mitchell109
    February 28, 2012
    05:41 PM

    sing it with me... Brazil!
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  • By Michael H.
    February 28, 2012
    06:26 PM

    The greatest has to be another by Saul Bass: the one for Hitchcock's Vertigo.
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    • By LJ
      February 29, 2012
      07:45 PM

      +1

  • By Kevin
    February 29, 2012
    03:32 PM

    Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites.
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  • By Kaurismaki_fan
    February 29, 2012
    05:00 PM

    That 39 Steps one is fresh..
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  • By SRL73
    February 29, 2012
    06:29 PM

    Saul Bass' Spartacus titles are pretty great
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    • By CL78
      March 01, 2012
      09:34 AM

      Absolutely agree...legendary titles for a legendary film. Saul Bass was money all the way.

    • By Shaun Pearson
      March 04, 2012
      02:12 PM

      And didn't he also do the titles for Dr. Strangelove? Those are great too especially with that lyrical music & war machine imagery.

  • By Saulo Rocha
    March 01, 2012
    07:25 PM

    Spartacus opening titles makes me wonder what the film would be had Kubrick got it his way. Bass was a genius.
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  • By cinemalacrum
    March 01, 2012
    11:42 PM

    Those are good, although they are missing Do The Right Thing. Incidentally, it needs a bluray upgrade.
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  • By Vinny
    March 02, 2012
    08:12 PM

    Bunny Lake Is Missing
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  • By Russ
    March 03, 2012
    12:55 PM

    Brazil, Fear and Loathing, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore... and those are just off the top of my head.
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  • By Nick Curnow
    March 03, 2012
    08:58 PM

    Jigoku! House! Kwaidan!
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  • By Erik
    March 05, 2012
    06:44 PM

    Check out my collection of screen titles- http://www.flickr.com/photos/50749457@N02/sets/72157626166458293/
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  • By Christian Annyas
    March 06, 2012
    08:21 AM

    150+ title designs from Criterion Collection movies (including some Eclipse titles): http://bit.ly/CriterionTitles
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  • By E. D. Tremper
    June 08, 2012
    05:46 PM

    I would have liked to see "The Music Room" or "Kwaidan," but these are good.
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  • By Kenn Rabin
    June 22, 2012
    05:18 AM

    I second NORTH BY NORTHWEST and the graphic from M, but also love the title sequences for DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE BLOB (including the song), FORBIDDEN PLANET, THEM!, all the PINK PANTHER movies, PSYCHO, PERSONA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE TIME MACHINE, and a whole slew of 1950s/1960s sci-fi/horror films too numerous to mention. Oh yeah, and BULLITT.
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  • By caliban's iphone
    December 26, 2012
    01:07 AM

    Without a doubt, Vertigo. Peerless. And as was also mentioned, Double Indemnity.
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  • By Gord
    December 26, 2012
    02:26 AM

    I suppose pretty much any of Powell & Pressburger's technicolor titles are great. Another in the Criterion Collection that hasn't been mentioned is Island of Lost Souls. I like the eery wavy sea-splashed titles. And for me, the best Hitchcock title sequence is the fractured beauty of Psycho.
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  • By Bryan Dahlberg
    March 25, 2013
    02:29 PM

    What about the end credits -- almost a complete animated film in itself -- for "Around the World in 80 Days" by Saul Bass?
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