Sentences with phrase «film psycho»

«A large - scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture — the classic red barn and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho — will comprise the fourth... Read More

For this work, the artist slowed down the classic Hitchcock film Psycho to play over a 24 - hour period, so that its frames flicker and shudder across the screen.

Taking her inspiration from the paintings of Edward Hopper and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Psycho, the sculpture is fabricated from a deconstructed red barn and seems at first to be a genuine house, though it is actually a scaled - down structure made up of two propped up facades.

It was inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture — the classic red barn and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.

Over the course of his career, he has sculpted, manipulated, and controlled time in mind - bending works such as the video installation 24 Hour Psycho (1993), for which he slowed down Alfred Hitchcock's iconic film Psycho so that...

Over the course of his career, he has sculpted, manipulated, and controlled time in mind - bending works such as the video installation 24 Hour Psycho (1993), for which he slowed down Alfred Hitchcock's iconic film Psycho so that it ran for exactly 24 hours rather than the original 109 minutes.

This character is a reference to Norman from the film Psycho.

The movie highlights the period of his life where he made the classic film Psycho - that famous shower scene, eh?

«Alfred Hitchcock's famous explanation about the real difference between surprise and suspense — a bomb exploding with no warning vs. being forewarned about the bomb in advance — lies at the heart of the difference between his film Psycho (based on the Robert Bloch novel) and the new A&E television series «Bates Motel,» which examines Norman Bates» upbringing and the events that will ultimately mold him into a cross-dressing murderer with dual personalities.»

This movie, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, explores their unique relationship and creative partnership as they produce the film Psycho.

Not exact matches

You may remember Troy McClure from such films as... The Boatjacking of Supership» 79, and Dial P for Psycho.

So they've dreamed up an event — giant screens showing Hitchcock films like «Psycho» — to help draw a crowd that doesn't care much about offense, defense or special teams.

The music from western culture was designed to induce a range of emotions from calm to excited, and from happy to anxious or sad, and included both orchestral music and excerpts from three popular films (Psycho, Star Wars, and Schindler's List).

Even if you have never seen the movie, or read the book, you know the name of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, adapted from Robert Bloch's book by the same name, Psycho.

This misstep didn't seem to hurt the actor, whose name was already attached to a number of high - profile projects that would no doubt further increase his star wattage.Two such projects were the edgy indie films American Psycho and Requiem for a Dream, both released in 2000.

Forster's manic editing style — at its worst in The Quantum of Solace (2008)- does turn that opening street rampage into a blithering mess of shakycam shots, reverse - swish - swoop pans and psycho - edits, but the film soon calms down, and there are several strong performances in the quiet scenes that buffer Lane's ongoing question for answers.

It's all a bit improbable, but Dolan — who claimed never to have watched any Hitchcock before filming — pulls off a Master - of - Suspense Psycho - drama, down to the scraping, disturbed violins.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

The film reminded me of films like The Prime Gig, Boiler Room, Less Than Zero, Nothing in Common, Up in the Air, American Psycho, and Glen Gary Glen Ross.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

Veteran move and film actress Archer, is most notable to audiences for playing Michael Douglas's wife in the 1987 Best Picture Oscar nominee «Fatal Attraction,» starring Glenn Close as a psycho mistress.

It interestingly comments on the film's dichotomies, its relationship to Psycho, its place in the De Palma canon, and its use of shower scenes.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high... Read More

But where a film like The Silence of the Lambs perversely reassures its captive audience that no matter the procreative ingenuity of a predator's unslakeable bloodlust, there's always a corn - fed, buttermilk - scrubbed farm girl there to put him away (and Taking Lives falls into this camp), there are films like granddaddy In Cold Blood (and great - grandpappy Psycho) that disdain the easy treatment of societal cancers.

We can't recall Moore playing such an evil character before but we'd love to see her unleash her inner psycho in the role as Laurie did in De Palma's film.

Although many moviegoers would probably rank «Psycho» or maybe «North by Northwest» as Hitch's best, for S&S types his film to beat was «Notorious» (1946).

On film, the concept of imperious parents and exasperated children is far from new, with the variations of mother - son relationship fuelling everything from Throw Momma from the Train to Mother (both Albert Brooks» 1996 drama and Bong Joon - ho's unrelated 2009 thriller) to Psycho.

Gus Van Sant's Psycho and the Austin Powers films: strange bedfellows indeed.

Jeremy becomes the wingman tossed on the grenade of true love blossoming between John and Treasury Secretary William «The Next President» Cleary's (Christopher Walken) eldest daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams)-- the grenade in question being Cleary's younger daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher, effortlessly walking away with the film), some kind of nymphomaniac psycho who serves, Boomerang - like, as the counterpoint to Jeremy's voracious sexual predator.

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.

Though it recalls a film made twenty years earlier, Dressed to Kill pushes the envelope as Psycho had a generation before.

The film is described as a dark psycho - creeper about trio of lighthouse keepers pitted against each other on a remote island off the coast of Scotland.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

In addition to the feature film on both Blu - ray and DVD, the limited edition collector's set will also contain a DVD chock - full of bonus features and a CD of the film's soundtrack featuring original tracks by Lalo Schifrin, Jimmy Psycho, Christopher Drake, and Christian Henson.

The 91 minute doc is an all - encompassing look at the revolutionary shower scene in the Master of Suspense's 1960 film, Psycho.

Occasionally, it veers into fantasy, with hand - drawn illustrations on top of the film stock when the narrative slides toward musical numbers, often comical covers of songs like the Talking Heads» «Psycho Killer» and Iggy Pop's «The Passenger» staged on public transit.

Even his worst films (Psycho, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, My Own Private Idaho) are works of perfect tone, just bad films from the outset.

I've used «Psycho,» an improvement on Robert Bloch's 1959 source novel, in my film studies courses.

Until suddenly he does, and the film shifts gears from a study of trauma into a more conventional (but still eerily effective) horror movie, with Josh (who looks more than a little like Glover in River's Edge) enthusiastically casting himself in the role of psycho killer, as if trying to live up to what he worries his best friend thinks he's become anyway.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high school and his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), was still breathing.

He wrote the script to for «Psycho II», the sequel to one of horror's beloved films.

Mike Gencarelli: You wrote the script for «Psycho II», you must have been nervous creating a sequel to one of the most beloved horror films?

Still, the production value was there and a cast that includes James Spader (2 Days in the Valley, Crash), Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster (Psycho, Rear Window), along with a veteran film director like Walter Hill, so the question is «How could things have gotten this bad?»

Whilst known for his own vivid and controversial novels LESS THAN ZERO, AMERICAN PSYCHO and THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (each adapted into acclaimed films),...

Bold colours, costumes, Austrian pop music (Naked Lunch mix the soundtrack), devilish performances, and candid material seek to match this film with the likes of other psycho - thrillers, such as the work of Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives) and even the deftly affecting films of Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful).

You know you're a real fan of «Psycho,» Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation of Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, if your first reaction to hearing about A&E's new series, «Bates Motel,» which premieres on March 18, was to grumble, «They've already done a TV show called «Bates Motel.»»

HITCHCOCK Director: Sacha Gervasi Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Danny Huston, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy We take Hitchcock's masterpiece Psycho as an important part of film history.

John Landis, a director with a great sense of film history and surely a Psycho fan through and through, appears in a minor role as a radio show producer.

Coming, as James Naremore wrote in 1973, «between the repressive manners of the classic Hollywood studio movie and the «liberated» ethos of the R - rated contemporary film,» Psycho did previously unthinkable, willfully perverse things — killing off its heroine and thereby taking its star actor offscreen at the end of act 1; leaving us only a homicidal maniac to identify with for the rest of the film; intimating necrophilia and incest within an American family.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.