A less publicly appreciated (and comparatively unknown) filmmaker, Saul Bass had no less enviable career than any widely recognized director. And he worked with a lot of them, too. Famous—in the film industry—for designing title sequences, Bass was a repeat collaborator to many legendary directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese. He did the titles for such great films as “Vertigo,” “North By Northwest,” “Psycho," “Spartacus,” “Ocean’s 11” (the original), “Goodfellas,” “Casino,” and “Big.” And the list goes on. The guy was prolific and busy. He also designed some of the corporate world’s most famous logos. The Bell System bell in a circle? Him. The At&T globe? Ditto. Continental Airline’s Jetstream and United’s tulip in the '70s? Yup and yup. Bass even won an Academy Award for a short film he directed. Yes, the guy was an Oscar-winning director too. (The...
- 12/10/2014
- by Zach Hollwedel
- The Playlist
From Ian Albinson, editor of Art of the Title: "To celebrate the release of the long-awaited book Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design, I put together a brief visual history of some of Saul Bass's most celebrated work."
Update: Tomorrow, MoMA presents an evening devoted to the book with presentations by Kyle Cooper, Chip Kidd and co-author of the book, Pat Kirkham. "This special event features the New York premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass's Academy Award-winning short Why Man Creates (1968), newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive, as well as a rich selection of title sequences, commercials, and corporate campaigns."
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Update: Tomorrow, MoMA presents an evening devoted to the book with presentations by Kyle Cooper, Chip Kidd and co-author of the book, Pat Kirkham. "This special event features the New York premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass's Academy Award-winning short Why Man Creates (1968), newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive, as well as a rich selection of title sequences, commercials, and corporate campaigns."
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- 11/13/2011
- MUBI
Pictured: Saul Bass, winner of the 1968 (41st) Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject winner Why Man Creates. Courtesy of ©AMPAS
Beverly Hills, CA . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present “Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design,” celebrating one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed designers, on Monday, November 14, at 7 p.m. at MoMA in New York City. The evening’s special guests will include design historian Pat Kirkham; designer and writer Chip Kidd; and graphic designer Kyle Cooper, who has created title sequences for “Seven” (1995), “X-Men: First Class” (2011), the “Spider-Man” trilogy and others. The event is part of To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, and will also feature the premiere of the Academy Film Archive’s new restoration of Bass’s Oscar®-winning short “Why Man Creates” (1968).
Bass, who created some...
Beverly Hills, CA . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present “Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design,” celebrating one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed designers, on Monday, November 14, at 7 p.m. at MoMA in New York City. The evening’s special guests will include design historian Pat Kirkham; designer and writer Chip Kidd; and graphic designer Kyle Cooper, who has created title sequences for “Seven” (1995), “X-Men: First Class” (2011), the “Spider-Man” trilogy and others. The event is part of To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, and will also feature the premiere of the Academy Film Archive’s new restoration of Bass’s Oscar®-winning short “Why Man Creates” (1968).
Bass, who created some...
- 11/8/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Caught up in the whirlwind kick-off of MoMA’s 9th Annual Festival of Film Preservation is Joe Dante’s beloved The Movie Orgy.
As of this writing, there’s a theater full of New Yorkers experiencing Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy. I personally consider these people lucky and blessed and will welcome them into a new world (not personally) upon exiting that theater in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, J. Hoberman (in the Village Voice) and Dave Kehr (in the NY Times) have excellent pieces about not only The Movie Orgy but also the festival within which is screening it, MoMA’s festival for the preservation of cinema.
Says The Village Voice:
Bucking historical inevitability even as it serves history, the Museum of Modern Art’s month-long annual festival of film preservation, “To Save and Project,” could be retitled “To Save and Project . . . Film.” The Movie Orgy—which opens...
As of this writing, there’s a theater full of New Yorkers experiencing Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy. I personally consider these people lucky and blessed and will welcome them into a new world (not personally) upon exiting that theater in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, J. Hoberman (in the Village Voice) and Dave Kehr (in the NY Times) have excellent pieces about not only The Movie Orgy but also the festival within which is screening it, MoMA’s festival for the preservation of cinema.
Says The Village Voice:
Bucking historical inevitability even as it serves history, the Museum of Modern Art’s month-long annual festival of film preservation, “To Save and Project,” could be retitled “To Save and Project . . . Film.” The Movie Orgy—which opens...
- 10/15/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design will be published in November 2011. The book was compiled by Bass's daughter Jennifer Bass and design historian Pat Kirkham, and even comes with a forward by Martin Scorsese. The 440 page hardcover book has a hefty cover price of $75, but Amazon [1] is offering a preorder discount of 39% off -- $45.84. Hit the jump to see some of the pagespreads from the book, showcasing the art of Bass over his career. Gallery of pages from the book: [gallery columns="2"] Official Information on the book: This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he...
- 9/5/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
It's often the first thing you'll see of a movie and, depending on that movie's quality, it may be the last thing you remember. Yet the title sequence goes curiously unheralded by the film industry. There was once an Academy Award for Best Title Writing – the calligraphic text cards that stood in for dialogue during the silent era – but there has never been one for the finest credit sequences. The great Saul Bass made the medium an acknowledged art form with his modernist titles for the likes of North by Northwest, Vertigo and The Man with the Golden Arm. Even he, however, had to direct a documentary (Why Man Creates, a 1968 short) to bag himself a long-overdue Oscar.
- 2/25/2011
- The Independent - Film
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