Van Sant's picture is a love letter to Hitchcock and to all of the films Making a Psycho that functions perfectly on its own terms while polishing this jewel of a thriller So, even if Van Sant and his team deserve only some of the credit for the new Psycho's tension andįright quotientand I do think they deserve somethey have earned a whole heaping pile of praise for Many grade-schoolers as it is to filmmakers everywhere. This "tribute" to Hitchcock's original is a nimble balancing act of the originalįilm's story and style against both the contemporary American landscape in which it is reset and theĪlmost forty years of history that have seen Hitch's Psycho become a touchstone as familiar to Photographer Christopher Doyle's nearly wholesale import of Hitchcock and John L. Rather,Ĭontrary to those snakes in the grass with their blaring "How dare you!"'s, and despite Van Sant and Made is something only an established talent could get the nerve (or the financing) to do. Say this not only because its self-consciously post-modern aim of making a film that has already been Gus Van Sant's much debated, too often derided remake of Psycho is a real director's project. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano (based on the novel by Robert Bloch). Cast: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H.
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