368 - Psycho (1960)

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Aug 7, 2022 · 36m

We visit the MAC for a screening of the new 4k restoration of Psycho, one of the most analysed films of all time, and arguably director Alfred Hitchcock's most famous. It's a film we've both seen several times, but not for a few years, and in the cinema setting for which it's meant, instead of the classroom, there's a renewed and reinvigorated wonder to its imagery and editing. We share our feelings about this screening, remark upon things we'd forgotten or had never noticed before, discuss how elements of the film have aged, and compare it to Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill, which was…