Opening Credits I Love: Bullitt (1968)

Pablo Ferro designed the opening credits for Bullitt, my second favorite Steve McQueen film (number one - The Great Escape).  I love the way the words drop off the screen and leave phantom credit behind which transports the viewer to the next scene.  Enjoy.

Zero Dark Thirty: Revert to Draft

After receiving numerous comments about seeing the film first that is exactly what I shall do.  I have reverted my post on Zero Dark Thirty to draft until I can see the film for myself.  It opens here on the 19th and I will see it shortly thereafter.  I honestly hope that everything I have heard about its embrace of torture is wrong.

Given everything that has been written or stated about the scenes in question, I have little hope that it is wrong but I cannot know it for myself until I see it.  One thing is for sure:  This year's Oscars already have the ready-made controversy they so greedily crave.   Perhaps they can even get a repeat of the 1979 ceremony honoring the 1978 nominees that included The Deer Hunter and Coming Home, with Jane Fonda yelling "The Deer Hunter is a lie!" as it won its Oscar.  Will someone yell the same of Zero Dark Thirty?  And will they be right?  We shall see.