Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Kyle Cooper's opening credit sequence does a magnificent job of setting the tone

Not "3T" but a reversed French "ET", from the end credits that are the opening credits of bad boy Gaspar Noé's Irreversible. Only a few managed to identify it, but the range of answers was certainly interesting -- everything from Godard, to Hartley, to Miike and even Tom O'Horgan. Well spotted, fellow fans of rampant misanthropy.
The Smashing Pumpkins song referred to in the alt-text? The End is the Beginning is the End, of course.
This week: Where will you find this art-deco-ish version of the 20th Century Fox logo? Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!Years before he directed Forrest Gump 2, David Fincher was up to much nastier things, like putting Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box. A genuinely disturbing serial-killer film, Seven (or, Se7en, if you prefer) hasn't lost any of its punch fourteen years later. Kyle Cooper's opening credit sequence does a magnificent job of setting the tone, and it's full of freeze-frame treats, as last week's quiz revealed.
The alt-text clue was a reference to the fairly-unknown Soviet film Pyshka (Пышка), from 1934, a poster of which is shown hanging in Brad Pitt's apartment. (It's a detail that always bothered me -- I never bought that a none-too-bright detective would have own such a poster. Oh well.) 
This week's quiz is significantly more difficult. It's somewhat unique in that the credits are buried within an expository sequence, as you can see a bit of on the side of the truck. Good luck! Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

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