Psycho. #28

What's in a name?

What are your favourite movie titles? What makes a good movie title?

Well, I’ve been doing this column for a little while now, and I think this might be the first question we’ve had that has made me feel quite stumped! Going through some of my favourite films, I find it quite notable how insanely tedious their titles are, or rather how plain they can be. “Tokyo Story”; “Casablanca”, “The Return” — even a quite beautiful title like “L’atalante” is flatly descriptive, rather than coming at its subject from an angle that stimulates the imagination and thought. 

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I think I know who sent this question in, and I believe I know what prompted it. A couple of weeks ago I shared a list that I’ve been keeping, of some of the most boring film titles I can think of. That list in full: 

Winter Sleep
About Dry Grasses
Eternity and a Day
The Old Oak
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
We Live in Time
On Falling
My Dinner with André
A River Runs Through It
Vera Drake
The Legend of Bagger Vance