Sunday Top Ten - Credits design

One of the most frequently overlooked and underrated aspects of filmmaking would have to be the art of the title design. Be it the opening or closing credits, a creatively conceived title design can make a real impression on the viewer, defining the tone of a movie or even taking an active part in telling the story. There have been hundreds of great credit sequences to which I've responded well, but these ten are some of my personal favourites.

Sunday Top Ten - Musicals from the 60s

As the studio system of decades prior started dissolving in the late 1950s, the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical, an era ruled by versatile song-and-dance men like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, came to end. By the mid 1970s, the screen musical was all but dead, but what of those tumultuous 1960s years? Despite a proclivity for grasping at already popular shows from Broadway, the death throes of the movie musical marked an interesting and oddly ripe transition period – one that adopted a newer style which would inform some of the 70s' more experimental musical flare.

These are my ten favourites.