About the Event
Psycho
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
(US, 1960, 109 min.)
Saturday, October 26, 7:00 pm
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), desperate to start her life over with her fiance (John Gavin), embezzles money from her work place and flees Phoenix. Then, things take an unusual turn. Hitchcock’s film, for years the successful black and white film, offers a vision of Hollywood, of human beings, and ultimately the universe unlike any other. Anthony Perkins gives a career defining performance as Norman Bates, a man trapped in his own life. Also starring Vera Miles as Marion’s sister Lila and featuring an iconic score by Bernard Hermann. ““Psycho should be seen at least three times by any discerning film-goer, the first time for the sheer terror of the experience, and on this occasion I fully agree with Hitchcock that only a congenital spoilsport would reveal the plot; the second time for the macabre comedy inherent in the conception of the film; and the third for all the hidden meanings and symbols lurking beneath the surface of the first American movie since Touch of Evil to stand in the same creative rank as the great European films” — Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice
