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Psycho screenings near me next week...

posted 3 years ago by swanstep (2628)
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One of my remaining, local, semi-art cinemas is doing a Hitchcock season:
https://www.thecapitol.co.nz/hitchcock-collection
including four screenings of Psycho next week.

On Sat June 12 you can start with Shadow of A Doubt at 10 a.m. and then run through Vertigo, Psycho & NbNW by 6 p.m.. Then stick around for S.Korean hit action-thrller, Deliver Us From Evil (2021). Its plot capsule sounds at least a little Hitchcockian, "An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed."

That would be a crazy, filmarama day, but it was the sort of thing I was into in High School!

Neither NZ nor Australia has had any covid deaths this year (and it was only 5 per million covid deaths in NZ last year in any case, but it took lots of lockdowns and restrictions to achieve that, which almost killed cinemas) so it's great that cinemas are at last back in a groove down under now.

[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

On Sat June 12 you can start with Shadow of A Doubt at 10 a.m. and then run through Vertigo, Psycho & NbNW by 6 p.m..

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Hoo boy. I call Vertigo, NBNW and Psycho "The Big Three" for Hitchcock. One can pull out Rear Window as a masterpiece before them, and The Birds as a popular and important film after them -- but that "three in a row" is the core of Hitchcock to me, if only maybe because those are the only three Hitchcock films to open with a Saul Bass credit sequence AND a Bernard Herrmann overture. Yes, the three films that follow those credit sequences are great "on their own", but the Bass/Herrmann collaborations of part of the greatness. Alas, Rear Window has neither Bass nor Herrmann; and The Birds has no Bass(though it LOOKS like his credit sequence) and Herrmann with the music shut off(sound orchestrations only.)

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Then stick around for S.Korean hit action-thrller, Deliver Us From Evil (2021). Its plot capsule sounds at least a little Hitchcockian, "An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed."

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Yes...thrillers must live on. Nice to read of a movie with a (2021) release year.

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[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

That would be a crazy, filmarama day, but it was the sort of thing I was into in High School!

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Yes...movie marathons could be their own fun thing -- " a day in the dark."

One can curse oneself for so many hours spent in the dark over a lifetime of movie watching but -- I don't think so. Over my lifetime, I've generally gone out and seen one movie a week -- so 52 movies a year? And I don't go every week. (In 2020 and much of 2021, I barely went at all.)

In return, I got "entertained" most of the time(regardless of the quality of the movie) but...a few times a year, I got one of the experiences of my life -- a truly engaging movie, an emotional experience, a memory to carry over the decades.

You have to sit for a lot of things in this life. At your desk. On busses.

At ballgames. At concerts.

At movies.

As long as you do OTHER things and go other places, I think "a day in the dark at the movies"(not to mention any number of n ights)....is a great part of life.

[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

One of my remaining, local, semi-art cinemas is doing a Hitchcock season:
https://www.thecapitol.co.nz/hitchcock-collection
including four screenings of Psycho next week.

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Isn't that great? A man who was making films -- almost -- starting a century ago -- and is long dead, can STILL draw some crowds and some interest. An older population who at least remembers them on TV(if not at the theaters). A new generation which , hopefully, will see both the artistry and the showmanship.

By the way, I'm liking that Shadow of a Doubt has been paired with "The Big Three." I have a love-meh relationship with Hitchcock's films of the forties -- a lot of classics that don't particularly connect with me today, but Shadow of a Doubt is different. It has a story as tight as Psycho, a great psycho villain, a great female heroine, and a lot of things to say about the darkness residing behind family life. Its one of the few forties movies where I really feel like "I am there" IN the forties, IN Santa Rosa, while watching it. Plus, Joseph cotten's two big scary speeches -- one at the family dinner table about the useless rich widows he kills; one at the Til Two bar about how "life is a hell..people are swine" are two great explications of rage and madness (with, dare we admit, just a bit of TRUTH in both of the speeches in certain ways?)

[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

Neither NZ nor Australia has had any covid deaths this year (and it was only 5 per million covid deaths in NZ last year in any case, but it took lots of lockdowns and restrictions to achieve that, which almost killed cinemas) so it's great that cinemas are at last back in a groove down under now.

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Everywhere I go for lunches and dinners, people are OUT, in big groups. Its almost like a study in herd behavior, and a reminder that while people will obey for the right reasons, when the "all clear" bell is sounded...they try to bring back normalcy ASAP.

I think the issue for "the movies" going forward will be to "fill that pipeline" and get regular schedules of NEW movies going again.

Certain films have been "done and in waiting" for over a year now: Top Gun II, the newest James Bond, Black Widow, West Side Story.

But I'm heartened to see that the "next wave of movies" is before the cameras. Scorsese, Leo, and DeNiro are at last making "Killers of the Flower Moon"(I've seen photos.) And here's one that nobody wanted but we are going to get anyway: Indiana Jones 5, with a 78-year old Indy(Harrison Ford, who has already been seen in a photo dressed as Indy and looks pretty good) and no Spielberg at the helm. Hey, 78-year old Indy, 78-year old American President...I'm all for it at my age. Makes me feel like a kid with plenty of time left...(though that President sure sounds mentally shaky, but what the hell, we don't really NEED Presidents; the staff does the work.)

Plus, I see where folks like Brad Pitt and J-Law(remember her? and Sandra Bullock are all back before the cameras..