Delayed Movie Titles - 5 Examples

The pretty great 127 Hours (B+) revealed its title at 16 minutes and 45 seconds which awoke a long-gestating project post about pre-title sequences. In 1987, in only their second film, the Coen Brothers had the guts to open a film with a sharply edited, quick-witted, fast paced sequence showing how ex-con H.I. McDonough and his wife Ed came to the decision to kidnap a baby. When the actual movie starts, the title is shown at 11 minutes and 11 seconds.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's title is uncovered at 19 minutes and 6 seconds. The first part of the film shows Joel and Clementine meeting (for the second time as it turns out). Frequently in movies, a nonlinear narrative serves no purpose, but this timeline juggling helps depict the complex, waking dream, stream of consciousness of everyone's brains. Plus, our protagonist Joel is disoriented and our confusion helps the connection with him.
Like Raising Arizona, The Departed has a long pre-title sequence that shows how Billy Costigan became an undercover cop. And how Colin Sullivan became a mole for Frank Costello. Then, at 19 minutes and 44 seconds, the title is uncovered.
During some early screenings, there was no credit sequence before or after Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola had a pamphlet of the credits handed out to audience members - like a stage play. Initially, he didn't want the title in the film either but was forced to include it. In my favorite title reveal, "Our Motto: Apocalypse Now" is graffiti at the Kurtz compound and is seen between 1 hour and 46 minutes and 1 hour and 48 minutes.
In recent years, it's more common for titles to be shown at the very end of the movie. David Mamet frequently does this. But the most effective one is Batman Begins. It's like Raising Arizona and The Departed in that the whole origin-story film is prologue to the real story. Christopher Nolan did the same thing with its successor - to a diminished effect. At 2 hours, 11 minutes, and 56 seconds: