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Psycho

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Who's Playing Whom In The Hitchcock Movie?

    Good evening. There's a biopic being done about the portly, macabre genius who directed one-word classics like Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca, Suspicion, Rope, and Spellbound, among other films. So which stars are dropping by for a paycheck? Here's the answer to the mystery:

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Tony Perkins Hit On Frank Langella

    Frank Langella's insightful new book, Dropped Names, does just that, devoting a short chapter to each of the famous people he's encountered in his career. I was most fascinated by the one on Tony Perkins, who visited Langella backstage after a 1960s play. The Psycho star said people keep telling h ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 7, 2011

    Diabolique

    Frank Langella's insightful new book, Dropped Names, does just that, devoting a short chapter to each of the famous people he's encountered in his career. I was most fascinated by the one on Tony Perkins, who visited Langella backstage after a 1960s play. The Psycho star said people keep telling h ... More >>

  • Film

    October 19, 2011

    Score! Film Forum Reminds Us Who Put More Psycho in Psycho

    Frank Langella's insightful new book, Dropped Names, does just that, devoting a short chapter to each of the famous people he's encountered in his career. I was most fascinated by the one on Tony Perkins, who visited Langella backstage after a 1960s play. The Psycho star said people keep telling h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Razzie Award "Winners"

    MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Angelina Jolie in a Michael Bay production. ​In the 30 years since MTV first hit the air, the music video has proven itself as a medium able to collapse high and low culture—or, ... More >>

  • Film

    March 16, 2011

    35 Years Later, Taxi Driver Still Stuns

    MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Angelina Jolie in a Michael Bay production. ​In the 30 years since MTV first hit the air, the music video has proven itself as a medium able to collapse high and low culture—or, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Jared Loughner: The Sad Smile of a Psycho

    ​It was plastered on the face of Arizona wacko Jared Loughner as he appeared before a federal judge for the slaying of six people and the attempted slaughter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. But where had I seen that look before? That very same nervy, sick, entitled, arrogant smirk? On ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    The Scariest Moment From a Movie

    ​I'll start: The moment in When a Stranger Calls when Carol Kane is told by the police, "The call is coming from inside your house!" Runner-up: In Psycho, when Anthony Perkins's mother is spun around in her chair and turns out to be a worm-eaten skeleton. Any others?

  • Film

    October 27, 2010

    Milestones for the Masters of Suspense: Psycho's 50th, Inspector Bellamy

    ​I'll start: The moment in When a Stranger Calls when Carol Kane is told by the police, "The call is coming from inside your house!" Runner-up: In Psycho, when Anthony Perkins's mother is spun around in her chair and turns out to be a worm-eaten skeleton. Any others?

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Joel Schumacher Was Straight!

    ​For a day anyway. The genial director known for films like St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, did it with publicist/performer Cherry Vanilla back in the seventies, according to the latter's spicy new memoir, Lick Me.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

    ​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    See Double Take at the Film Forum

    ​Tired of shlocky sequels and franchise films? Then plunk your money down on something original: Johan Grimonprez's Double Take, which is a video installation, a retro montage, a museum piece, and a meditation on the way fear was marketed and manipulated in the '50s and '60s to sell the Cold ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2010

    Double Take, Starring Hitchcock

    Master of Suspense stars in Cold War/pop culture/essay film mashup

  • Film

    April 27, 2010
  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2010

    The Birds

    On neurotic birders and avian beauty

  • Columns

    August 1, 2006

    NY Mirror

    On neurotic birders and avian beauty

  • Film

    May 30, 2006

    Seeing and Nothingness

    A must-see retrospective celebrates the work of a modernist master

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Get Reel

    A teenage cineaste falls in love with the Voice's film pages

  • Screens

    October 11, 2005

    The Definitive Hitchcock Collection

    A teenage cineaste falls in love with the Voice's film pages

  • Books

    August 12, 2003

    Braving the Elephants

    Celebrity and Suffering in John Haskell's Factual Fictions

  • News

    February 11, 2003

    The Desert of the Real

    Gus Van Sant Jerry-Rigs the Road Movie

  • Film

    May 7, 2002

    Under the Stars

    Gus Van Sant Jerry-Rigs the Road Movie

  • Film

    January 29, 2002

    Search and Rescue Operations

    Losing the Plot at Sundance

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Film

    Cinema Alfresco

  • News

    November 28, 2000

    Icon Remix

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • NYC Life

    August 15, 2000

    Two-Bedroom Apartment in Three-Story Attached House

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • Film

    August 1, 2000

    Primal Screen

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • Music

    April 20, 1999

    Gettin’ Slippy Wit It

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • Art

    March 23, 1999

    Up and Down

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • Film

    January 26, 1999

    Shoot To Kill

    Paul Pfeiffer Sees the Art Historical Vista from the Bates Motel

  • Film

    January 12, 1999

    Idol Speculation

    Notes on Hypothetical Hollywood

  • Film

    December 22, 1998

    Psycho-a-Go-Go

    On Reverence, Remakes, and Retreads

  • Film

    December 15, 1998

    Taking Another Stab

    On Reverence, Remakes, and Retreads

  • Columns

    September 22, 1998

    NY Mirror

    ''When the press release for Stupid Kids likened the play to Dawson's Creek, there I was in the front row, ready to applaud the acne.''

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