alr

Psycho

Screening on Film
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
With Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
US, 1960, 35mm, black & white, 109 min.

Considered by many to be the quintessential Hitchcock film, Psycho tells the story of Marion Crane (Leigh), a young secretary driven to desperation by a floundering love affair. After stealing $10,000 from her employer, Marion goes on the run, but with the police on her tail and her conscience plaguing her, she shows signs of paranoia and her behavior becomes increasingly erratic. During a violent rainstorm, she pulls into a roadside hotel run by a shy young man named Norman Bates (Perkins), who may be hiding secrets of his own. Hitchcock navigates the film’s surprises and changing allegiances with an assured hand as his camera probes the disturbing physical and mental worlds of his characters.

Part of film series

Read more

Serge Daney:
L’Homme cinéma

Other film series with this film

Read more

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Read more

The Complete Alfred Hitchcock

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

Read more

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

Read more

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

Read more

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

Read more

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

Read more

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

Read more

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue

Read more

David Lynch, New Dimensions

Read more

Museum Hours: Mati Diop’s Dahomey