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Not Coming to a Theater Near You. You'll want to go in through the front door to fully experience the extraordinarily well-conceived feature, "Titles Designed by Saul Bass." In 24 "Interactive Image Galleries," you can click through these credit sequences at your own pace and read notes on the background for each. Definitely a feature to spend some time with. As Rumsey Taylor writes in his introduction, "Bass's impact in credits design remains virtually unparalleled, even to this day."

Two more pieces address Bass's work as a director. Watching the 25-minute Why Man Creates, Jason Woloski finds himself asking, "Who'd have guessed Saul Bass was a romantic?" And Thomas Scalzo: "Quiet, haunting, beautiful, Phase IV is an intriguing, and largely overlooked, science-fiction masterwork centered on the latent destructive power of the insect world and humanity's inherent vulnerability in the face of catastrophic change."

Posted by dwhudson at August 13, 2005 7:18 AM