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| Psycho |
When Van Sant announced he was to remake Alfred Hitchcock's venerable
Psycho (1960), the kindest response anyone could elicit was that his intention was "heroic and suicidal".
Aided by his mercurial director of photography Christopher Doyle - renowned for the brilliant colour spectrums Doyle has created for Wong Kar-Wai - Van Sant's Warhol-worthy, shot-for-shot appropriation blends experiments with lighting and rear projection, re-workings of Bernard Hermann's score and Saul Bass' credit titles with trademark subliminal inserts for Van Sant purists.
Anne Heche and Vince Vaughn play it straight to great effect.
"Norman Bates is alive and well, and just a tad kinkier than you remember"
San Francisco Chronicle
