Movie Details
| Title: | 78/52 | |
| Director: | Alexandre O Philippe | |
| Year: | 2017 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.23.17 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- Memory: The Origins of Alien
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.23.17 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2017 Day three starts with this documentary on the shower scene from Psycho. yep, a whole movie just on one scene. It's actually a lot better than it should be. I thought it would run pretty thin and have to stretch for time to fill out the 90 minutes, but it feels jam packed and well paced throughout. It tells a comprehensive story of the origin, planning, execution, and impact of the scene, using all the source material from various sources needed. They interview Janet Leigh's body double, use archival interview footage of Leigh and Hitch and everyone else, talk to the editor of the Gus Van Sant remake, show all the satires, etc... if you think it has anything to do with this scene, it's probably in the movie. It also deep dives on a few tiny details. The one that sticks with me in particular is getting an art historian to talk about the painting that Norman Bates uses to hide his peephole. As it turns out, the painting itself is about voyeurism and is quite racy and the subject has been painted many times over, each painting bringing their own perspective and take on the subject and the version that Hitch used had particular meaning in itself. The film also uses a great technique for most of its interview subjects. The director sits them down and lets them watch the movie (or at least the scene itself), getting reaction video-style feedback from everyone. Sometimes this feedback is funny, but more often it provides fantastic commentary because it's people like Guillermo del Toro or Walter Murch talking about it. So yeah, this was fantastic. In the Q&A afterward, the director mentioned wanting to do a sequel which I thought was pretty funny. |
