Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Marion Crane has lived her life by the rules, until one day she takes a chance. Leaving town with $40,000 of her employer’s money, Marion embarks a journey westward into criminality. Along the way, she makes a stop at the Bate Motel.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 34th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 9th April 2017.
- The end of the episode marks the first time that the “random number generator” has landed on a movie that Andrew and Darren already covered, with the first spin landing on Léon: The Professional. Andrew and Darren covered this as the fifth episode of the podcast.
- Psycho at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Richard Brody at The New Yorker discusses both Hitchcock’s creative arc working on Psycho and the popular memory of that arc as evoked in both Hitchcock and The Girl, November 2012.
- Mark Ramsey and Wondry’s Inside Psycho podcast, March 2017.
- Markku Koski on “Psycho and the Modern American Gothic”, April 2011.
- Paul Bochner at The Atlantic explores the history of the house that inspired the Bates residence, May 1996.
- Steve North at Salon on the secrets of Psycho‘s shower scene, June 2010.
- Stephen Whitty at NewJersey.com on the breakdown of moral order within Psycho, October 2010.
- Nigel Andrews’ retrospective review of Psycho for The Financial Times, March 2010.
- Reprint of Andrew Sarris’ original review of Psycho at The Village Voice, June 2010.
- Andrew Sarris remembers the public’s reaction to his positive review of Psycho, March 2001.
- Pauline Kael discusses the work of Hitchcock, including Psycho, in The New Yorker, August 1980.
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