

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968), collected writings of the late film critic Pauline Kael. The name was unfamiliar to me, but not the allusion. Last weekend, at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, I saw a charming three-minute short, Une Balade à la Mer (“a trip to the sea”), whose credits included the name of the financer, KissKissBankBank. The credit roll for last year’s Frozen, from Disney, lasted 10 minutes and included a nod to the person in charge of “caffeination.”īut even tiny independent films may have gems in their closing credits.

If you stick around after a Pixar feature you’ll see, deep into the closing credits, a list of “ production babies” born to employees in the year before the movie’s release. Sometimes it pays to stay in your seat after the final scene of a movie.
