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“When I was a kid,” director Bong Joon Ho writes in the catalog for his current exhibition at the Academy Museum, “I watched so many Alfred Hitchcock movies on Korean television. Hitchcock is still one of my biggest inspirations. I’ve seen Psycho more than 50 times.” This psychological thriller opens with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) absconding with $40,000 cash from her employer in Phoenix to deliver to her debt-ridden fiancé in California. Along the way she stops at the Bates Motel, where an encounter with curious innkeeper Norman (Anthony Perkins) begets one of the most harrowing and famous scenes in cinema history. An Italian poster from Bong’s personal collection hangs in the exhibition, on view on Level 2, and he included... the title on his 2022 Sight & Sound list as one of 10 films that he considers the greatest of all time.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1960 | 109 min. | USA | Black-and-White | English | Rated R
DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
WRITTEN BY: Joseph Stefano
WITH: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh