Martin Scorsese Reflects on Design Giant Saul Bass

And speaking of movie posters, Paramount has cast wide the media net for Shutter Island, the lunatics-are-taking-over-the-asylum thriller that opens Friday. While Ben Kingsley was chatting up Maxim, director Martin Scorsese penned a tribute to the late, great Saul Bass for the March issue of Architectural Digest (the one with Jennifer Aniston and her Robert Motherwell painting on the cover). “He was an artist, and a great one,” writes Scorsese, before offering a Bass primer that highlights his iconic graphics for Otto Preminger‘s The Man with the Golden Arm and Hitchcock‘s Vertigo (that famous spiral? Based on drawings by a 19th-century French mathmatician, not an afternoon with the Spirograph kit).