Books for sale at the event!
Hitchcock’s biggest commercial success, made intentionally on a B-movie budget, follows an on-the-lam secretary (Janet Leigh). At the worn-out Bates Hotel, she meets the owner (Anthony Perkins), who is happy to work on his taxidermy but not his relationship to his mother. The rest is cinema history: Psycho rewrote the rules of horror films, Hollywood success and movie music. “It wasn’t a message that stirred the audiences,” Hitch told Francois Truffault, “nor was it a great performance…they were aroused by pure film … I was playing them, like an organ.” (Hitchcock, U.S., 1960, 109 min.)
“Immortal … it connects directly with our fears.” –Roger Ebert
Hosted by Rough Draft Books w/ a pre-film discussion w/ Leah Rowan about MARION, her Psycho-inspired book, what Publishers Weekly calls, “a fiendishly clever feminist remix.”
- VIP Meet & Greet: 7:00
- Conversation: 7:45
- Psycho Begins: 8:00
Leah Rowan is an author living in Brooklyn and the Catskills. Marion is her forthcoming thriller.
This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
