Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veteran news dealer captured the general sentiment of sidewalk onlookers, "They ought to call the psycho ward and be done with them," he said...
Chabrol edits his film like Hitchcock, cutting to unexpected angles for jarring surprise effect, and stages a body disposal scene that is reminiscent of Psycho. The performances are restrained and electric with tension, like the film itself. La Femme Infidèle does not have the full impact of the master's touch, but at least it demonstrates the benefits of the Hitchcock tutelage...
...Dutch Schoolmaster Kees Boeke ("You advance in and out through the universe," says the blurb, "changing scale by a factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers is The Survival Book by Nesbitt, Pond and Allen -"an excellent handbook for Air Force pilots downed in remote regions...
...Feintuch also expressed concern over the quality of the movie series. "Until now some movies have been good, some have been mediocre-and the audience expects a certain standard," he said. "In the future, once a month we'll run a really good film like Psycho, The Pawnbroker, or Ship of Fools...
...Psycho may be the ultimate in Hitchcock's fewcharacter dramas: it starts with one character, leses her in finding another, and follows him to the picture's end. But this character is observed, not determined. Perkin's magnificent performance, not Hitchcock's camera motions and edtting, shapes our feeling about him. An extraordinary mobile camera follows the characters isto their natural settings, their homes, instead of isolating them in unfamiliar places...