Psycho News

Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years .

Are you sure I shouldn't wear a vest, Tom? Details: A Single Man Directed by Tom Ford The Weinstein Company Opens December 11 Too much is never enough for fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford , whose debut feature flaunts its capital-A Artiness the way some Napoleonic gym rats flaunt their overdeveloped musculature.

When you go see "Alfred Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps,' " don't be fooled that the whole plotline is about that film alone.

I met Lisa Olmstead this past summer 2009 when WHC had their Dutch Oven demo with hot biscuits and kettle coffee.

FILM REVIEW / One of the best gay movies ever; plus: watch our interviews with Ford, Colin Firth & Julianne Moore Gordon Bowness / Toronto / Thursday, December 03, 2009 To: Name: Comment: MELANCHOLY VERSUS MODERNISM.

David Thomson discusses The Moment of Psycho on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Booksmith, 1644 Haight , S.F., and introduces the film on Saturday, Dec.

Tuesday's Colorado Springs City Council meeting could be likened to a double feature, "The Three Faces of Eve" and "Psycho." Only Alfred Hitchcock, a meth-crazed sadist or someone suffering from narcissistic personality disorder could have derived pleasure from the spectacle, which fluctuated from the grisly to the bizarre, to just plain sad.

On a Friday evening 40 years ago, one day after Thanksgiving, I left a class at the Willard Building at Penn State to return to my dining hall for supper.

Our review of Shorts , published November 23rd, 2009, is also available. Not so tall tales from the director of Spy Kids .

Over at his spiffy "Alfred Hitchcock Geek" blog, Portland writer Joel Gunz is making a case, eye-opening to me at least, that Hitch's work was heavily influenced by the director's acquaintance with the paintings of Edward Hopper.

The shrieking violins of Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock's chilling masterpiece - proved horror is all the more effective when it is unseen.

They were my personal teen Rites of Spring. It took me years to understand the significance of both.

Robert Forster was a founding member of the Go-Betweens, one of Australia's finest bands.

This summer's blockbuster Star Trek remake from J.J. Abrams head this week's crop of Blu-ray releases.

I recently dredged up a piece of pop-culture history I haven't thought about in ages.

Director Gus Van Sant has begun shooting his latest, as-yet-untitled film in Portland, Ore., Imagine Entertainment announced Friday.

It's Gus Van Sant directing "Breaking Dawn." Because the third Twilight installment isn't beneath the guy who did "Milk" and "Drugstore Cowboy." Although, reminding everybody about that Psycho remake could be a powerful bargaining chip.

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant , where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

Although Halloween has come and gone, the FSR universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week's Culture Warrior presents three movies that were major game-changers for the genre.

Elvis Perkins, second from left, has changed since this photo was taken. "Short hair, glasses, beard," he says.