So sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the most interesting and innovative work to hit screens this year.Īrt of the Title's Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020īrisk and brimming with energy. These title sequences were painstakingly animated, painted, composited, illustrated, torn and pasted, shot, performed and typeset by teams large and small all around the world, navigating a global pandemic, with budgets modest and mighty, over video calls, in state-of-the-art facilities and in home studios. The panel chose this year’s top titles from among film, television, video games, web series, events and conferences.
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The 2020 panel includes: Yussef Cole, motion graphic designer and writer Manija Emran, creative director and co-founder, Me & The Bootmaker Frank William Miller, Jr., design director, Matter Unlimited Robin Nishio, director and graphic artist Louise Sandhaus, graphic designer, educator and author plus Art of the Title’s founder Ian Albinson and Editor-in-Chief Lola Landekic. Chosen by Art of the Title's panel of experts We reached out to our community to pull in new voices and to expand the team that calls the shots for the Top 10 Title Sequences of the Year. This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 title sequences, we’re doing something new. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new. Scenes set in Spain, New York, Bermuda, West Africa and France, which allow Boyd to draw on his international experiences, should enhance its appeal for readers in this country.It’s been a year like no other. 10)įorecast: With its bird's-eye view of English history in the 20th century, it's no wonder that this novel is a bestseller there. And after 496 pages, it's hard to say good-bye. Logan's journal entries are so candid and immediate it's difficult to believe he isn't real. Boyd, back in top form, has crafted a novel at least as beautifully nuanced as A Good Man in AfricaĪnd Brazzaville Beach. Logan is a man who sees his bright future dissipate and his great love destroyed, and yet can look back with "a strange sense of pride" that he's "managed to live in every decade of this long benighted century." His unfulfilled life, with his valiant efforts to be morally responsible, to create and, finally, just to get by, is a universal story, told by a master of narrative. This flawed yet immensely appealing protagonist is one of Boyd's most distinctive creations, and his voice-articulate, introspective, urbane, stoically philosophical in the face of countless disappointments-engages the reader's empathy. His meetings with Picasso, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Hemingway and Ian Fleming are adroitly and credibly interposed into the junctures of his life.
Logan's picaresque journey through the 20th century never seems forced, however. He resorts to journalism to earn a living, specializing in pieces about the emerging stars of the art world, whom he encounters-somewhat like Zelig-in social situations. "I believe my generation was cursed by the war," Logan says, and this becomes the burden of the narrative. Logan's creativity is stunted, and he slides into alcoholism, chronic infidelity and loneliness. On his release, he finds that tragedy has struck his family. He's sent on a naïve spying mission by British Naval Intelligence and imprisoned for two years. He goes down from Oxford with a shameful Third, finds early success as a novelist, marries a rich woman he doesn't love, escapes to Spain to fight in the civil war and is about to embark on a happy existence with his second wife when WWII disrupts his and his generation's equilibrium. Logan is a decent chap, filled with a moral idealism that he will never lose, although his burning sense of justice will prove inconvenient in later years. The early entries in his journal, which record his sexual explorations and his budding ambitions, provide a clear picture of the snobbery and genteel brutality of the British social system. Born to British parents in Uruguay in 1906, Logan Mountstuart attends an English prep school where he makes two friends who will be his touchstones for the next eight decades. Surely one of the most beguiling books of this season, this rich, sophisticated, often hilarious and disarming novel is the autobiography of a typical Englishman as told through his lifelong journal.
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