Thursday, August 15, 2013

Rollerball

Classic James Caan (post Godfather) sci-fi movie from the early 70's with a strangley prophetic story. Basically companies have replaced governments , and compete in a blood sport known as Rollerball. It's also an excellent critique of professional sports!:

"The game was created to illustrate the futility of individual effort."

It also boasts a soundtrack by Andre Previn which is a must have for soundtrack fans.



I've always been somewhat fascinated by the type face as these were the days when studios would design a unique typeface for a particular project. I wasnt able to track this one down, but someone  came up with a similar type face based closely on the 'Scorpions' logo type face called 'Lady Starlight':

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