For better or for worse, the Academy Awards are at the
pinnacle of film recognition in the English speaking world. Since 1927, awards
have been handed out to hundreds of movies, many deserving, some less so. If
you look down the list of winners you’ll find some of the best films of all time.
Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Casablanca
all won Oscars, though with just seven between them, perhaps not as many as
you’d have expected. Each year there are films which are overlooked by the
Academy and this week I’m going to be looking at Six of the Best… Films without
Oscars, the films which didn’t receive a single one. In other words, this is a
list of films which have one fewer Oscar than How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Pearl Harbor. So here they
are; six films without Academy Awards.
Showing posts with label Psycho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psycho. Show all posts
Sunday 9 June 2013
Sunday 22 July 2012
Psycho
"A boy's best friend is his mother"
Having embezzled $40,000 from her employers, Secretary Marion
Crane (Janet Leigh) flees in her car. After narrowly escaping the clutches of a
suspicious Police Officer she pulls into a quite motel during a heavy
rainstorm. The owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) greets her warmly and
explains that they don’t receive many guests due to the freeway being moved.
After offering Marion supper at the house he
shares with his mother, Norman
has to then retract the offer following an off screen argument with the old
woman… A few days later when Marion ’s
disappearance in noticed a Private Detective (Martin Balsam) tracks her
movements to the motel but he too goes missing. Fearing the worst Marion ’s boyfriend Sam (John
Gavin) and sister Lila (Vera Miles) head to the motel to search for the missing
woman.
Psycho contains
one of the most famous scenes in all cinema history as well as one of the most
recognisable scores and most unexpected and shocking twists. Even without these
three key elements though it would still be a five star film.
Labels:
10/10,
1960,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Anthony Perkins,
Janet Leigh,
John Gavin,
Martin Balsam,
Mystery,
Psycho,
Thriller,
Vera Miles
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