Affair to Remember

The aesthetic of Pablo Ferro’s opening titles from The Thomas Crown Affair (the good one, not the remake) might be called ’60s Geometric Chic. There’s a polo game sequence in the film that receives the same treatment. This is what widescreen film was made for:

Twenty years on, the Thomas Crown look received a low-budget but loving homage in the form of Swing Out Sister’s “You On My Mind” music video. What goes around, comes around.

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