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...Museum of Modern Art to witness “24 Hour Psycho”—a video installation by Douglas Gordan exhibited during the summer of 2006—as he has supposedly done every day. As Gordan’s title implies, Alfred Hitchcock??s seminal film has been slowed, and the man relishes the new perspective, the ability to circle the projection screen, scrutinizing and observing in a typically unattainable way. Two men—one old, one young—walk in, and he imagines them to be kindred spirits, sorely interpreting their...
...American film, gender-based violence is, unfortunately, business as usual, though it usually assumes a more somber tone. From Hitchcock??s indulgently Freudian Psycho, with its infamous shower slashing, to Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, with its copious shots of bludgeoned women, misogyny and cinema make comfortable, even gleeful, bedfellows. On television, procedural crime dramas such as Law and Order repeatedly render graphic, almost gratuitously gruesome, scenes of brutality against women, which take sadism to creative extremes...
...others we look down on him and his actions from above. Baxter’s strident authorial voice is present throughout “The Soul Thief.” He frequently calls our assumptions of modern life into question by inserting quotations from Gertrude Stein, references to Hitchcock??s “Psycho,” and existentialist sound-bites into the narrative. However, Baxter’s selection of somewhat inaccessible sources interferes with the ability of a lay reader to understand the significance of these allusions. In other passages, Baxter’s authorial voice...
...Pamela Anderson and barricade themselves in a room. After a female companion dies in a tragic banana-knife-shower-prank accident, Wes and crew evacuate the room and proceed to get kicked down a flight of stairs by an evil Paris Hilton. Finally, just like the ending of Hitchcock??s “Psycho,” Wes runs into himself dressed as an old woman. Now we see why Scantlin’s been yelling the lyrics “schizophrenic psycho” over and over. Wes Scantlin is indeed a master of homage: Some would...
...Crimson resulted in a penalty for too many men on the ice—New Hampshire passed the puck around, then shot it toward net. Harvard’s Christina Kessler, who had 33 saves overall, was screened from seeing the puck, which slipped past her for Hitchcock??s second goal of the game. Martine Garland and Sadie Wright-Ward got their 14th and 15th assists on the play.“I was screened,” Kessler said. “I caught a glimpse of it, but it wasn’t enough to keep...