Psycho (movie)

Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat

2013-05-08 13:57:00

Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...

Critic's Pick: 'The Sound of Music,' 'Psycho,' 'Mommie Dearest'

2013-05-08 15:35:00

No matter whether your mother's taste — or your memory of her, for that matter — is sweet or sour, the American Cinematheque has Mother's Day programming to suit the occasion. If your mom likes things sweet, the Cinematheque's Aero Theatre...

Quick Takes: Country music's new hit

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Roll over, Hank Williams, and tell Patsy Cline the news: Nashville has a new top music awards show. Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards show on CBS drew 15.4 million viewers, according to early data from Nielsen (final ratings won't be published...

Classic Hollywood: Vin Scully makes the call on baseball films

2013-04-08 05:00:00

Over the decades, films about legendary baseball players have sometimes knocked it out of the park (1942's "The Pride of the Yankees" about Lou Gehrig) or struck out (1948's "The Babe Ruth Story.") The latest baseball biopic to step up to the plate is...

'Oz' still great and powerful. Leno and Greenblatt feud over jokes.

2013-03-18 07:22:00

After the coffee. Before pretending I know something about March Madness. The Skinny: I watched the season finale of HBO's "Girls" last night. Who knew that all these 21st century women needed to be happy were the men who weren't making them happy at...

'Bates Motel' opens for business on A&E

2013-03-14 07:00:00

The big screen's most formidable mama's boy is coming to TV. Norman Bates, the deranged character of "Psycho" fame, is proving movie stars aren't the only ones hunkering down to the small screen — some of cinema's fictional personas are also...

Movie review: 'Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters' of art in progress

2013-03-08 00:00:00

It is a rare thing to witness the creative process. But in the excellent new documentary "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters," filmmaker Ben Shapiro gives us fly-on-the-wall access over a 10-year period to an acclaimed artist as he envisions, designs...

Film, TV violence is an intensely sensitive subject for some

2013-02-15 12:00:00

Years after she first saw "The Passion of the Christ," Lori Pearson still feels queasy when she recalls the brutally graphic movie about the final hours of Jesus' life. "After I left the theater I remember feeling physically uncomfortable," said...

Winter TCA: A&E's 'Bates Motel' cut from a different 'Psycho' cloth

2013-01-04 14:40:00

In "Bates Motel," A&E's prequel to the 1960 horror classic "Psycho," the violin screeches have been curiously replaced with the ringing of iPhones. Oh, the horror?� The new drama from executive producers Carlton Cuse ("Lost") and Kerry Ehrin ("Friday...

'Hitchcock's' triple play

2012-12-13 06:00:00

The original title of director Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock" was "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," the name of Stephen Rebello's book on which the film is based. Anthony Hopkins, who plays the famed filmmaker in the movie, thought the longer name...

Movie talk with Affleck, Bigelow, Gervasi, Hooper, Lee and Russell

2012-12-27 09:00:00

When your movie is making a killing at the multiplex and collecting all manner of rave reviews, it's safe to assume that your movie is working. But the six filmmakers who came together for the fourth annual Envelope Directors Round Table looked for a...

SAG Awards 2013: Strong morning for Fox Searchlight

2012-12-12 09:13:00

Fox Searchlight, the art house imprint of 20th Century Fox, is frequently a major player in the awards season, winning the best picture Oscar with 2008's "Slumdog Millionaire." But the studio's strong showing in nominations for the Screen Actors Guild...

Alfred Hitchcock's movies rarely got their due from Oscar (and the director himself famously never won), but that still doesn't explain why Perkins' marvelously disturbing portrait of insanity in 1960's landmark "Psycho" (a film nominated for four Oscars overall) was overlooked at the time.

2013-02-22 13:00:37

The Good: "Psycho" is one of the best films ever made. The Bad: There were three follow-ups, each worse than the last. Can you believe Anthony Perkins kept reprising the role of Norman Bates? The Ugly: The shot-for-shot remake of the original was awful. Sorry, Gus Van Sant.

2013-02-14 00:00:00

"Hitchcock" actresses Jessica Biel, from left, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette and Helen Mirren attend the premiere for Sacha Gervasi's film "Hitchcock," which stars Anthony Hopkins as famed director Alfred Hitchcock during his time making "Psycho." The film opens Friday.

2012-11-18 00:00:00