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Psycho
Film Review December 11, 1998
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: “Norman - Is That You?” The time has come to abandon the question of why Gus Van Sant did it. Because he could and because he wanted to should be...  
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Anne Heche seems lost, stuck in a fruitless search for the motivations driving this character from another era that no amount of tangerine-colored undergarments can solve. As Norman Bates, Vince Vaughn makes us better appreciate how much Anthony Perkins brought to the original project..."
SXSW Records
Music Review March 20, 2009
by Doug Freeman
"...If Elvis Perkins' 2007 debut, Ash Wednesday, was mournfully tinged by the memory of his parents (actor Anthony Perkins and photographer/9-11 victim Berry Berenson), then his follow-up feels more like a proper celebratory wake. Perkins' funereal, imagistic pull still haunts the album, but bolstered into the Elvis Perkins in Dearland fourpiece, the eponymous LP lopes with a processional gait, especially the chain-rattling reverb of "I'll be Arriving" and New Orleans-styled horns and jug-band stomp of "Doomsday." Opener "Shampoo" yelps out a declarative, "Sweep up, little sweeper boy," as if in response to his debut's ashes and dust, while "I Heard Your Voice in Dresden" echoes Herman Dune's quirky folk-pop melodies, and "Send My Fond Regards to Lonelyville" repeats the nasally twang of Clem Snide..."
You So Crazy!
Screens Blog May 15, 2008
by Marc Savlov
Description: The Great Derangement
"...Roberts Blossom (not to be confused with The Addam's Family's Blossom Rock or "Just One of Those Things"-chanteuse Blossom Dearie, although we could see how you might) is stark raving awesome in the title psychopathology, riffing his way up and down the insanity spectrum in a role that was based in large part on Plainfield, Wisconsin's real-life corpse-lover Ed Gein, at the time already infamous as the basis for both the novel and film versions of Psycho's matricidal motel maven Norman Bates. Suffice to say, Blossom's performance in Deranged makes Anthony Perkins look like the soul of sanity..."
P2
Film Review November 16, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense
plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
by Marc Savlov
"...But that's not what makes the sequence so memorable. It's Anthony Perkins, brilliantly underplaying this lonely psychopath's fumbling, childlike need to connect with another human being, that makes the sequence both ominous and, more importantly, heartbreakingly genuine..."
After a Fashion
Columns June 22, 2007
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen drops a gay bomb and salutes the dreck that is
Mahogany
"...Mahogany tells the story of a lowly display assistant (Ross) who dreams of becoming a fashion designer but accidentally becomes an international supermodel instead. Along the way, she begins and ends a love affair with a smarmy but dedicated neighborhood activist (Billy Dee Williams) and is embroiled in a relationship with a psycho fashion photographer (Psycho's Anthony Perkins, natch), eventually returning to the activist after learning that "success is nothing without someone to share it with." Absolute undiluted but highly entertaining dreck..."
A Life of His Own
Screens Story June 1, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: Diving right in with Tab Hunter
"...Your mom had a crush on him. He dated Anthony Perkins..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review May 18, 2007
by Marrit Ingman
"...It rises in the soundtrack as you struggle through fashion school, refusing to design a basic cocktail dress. (Never! Yours will have multicolored fan pleats!) It rises in the soundtrack as bitchy photographer Anthony Perkins kisses you unconvincingly, as if to say, "I'm in a great deal of denial." It rises in the soundtrack as you frolic around in avant-garde settings, double-exposed, wearing glitter and fright wigs and numb smiles..."
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Film Review January 12, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
by Marc Savlov
"...Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess of a film that attempts to re-create Süskind's memorably overripe novel via the visual (and to a lesser degree, audio) nature of film. It works only up to a point, and by the time (after 2 1/2 hours) the grand finale arrives, you're more likely to wonder at what exact point Tykwer handed over the directorial lash to Ken Russell and, more importantly, why star Whishaw chose to model his entire performance on Anthony Perkins doing Norman Bates..."
ACL Music Fest Preview
Music Story September 15, 2006
"...Thirty seconds into hearing this much-blogged about New York singer-songwriter, you'll know it's irrelevant that his father is the late actor Anthony Perkins. The songs on Ash Wednesday, his stunning, independently released debut, offer more than enough jagged edges, sharp turns, and brooding narratives to stand up on their own..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review July 7, 2000
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
"...MAHOGANY D: Berry Gordy (1975); with Diana Ross, Anthony Perkins, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nina Foch...."
Off The Bookshelf
Books Review July 8, 1999
"...Kaska focuses upon story details, like "Where is Marion [Janet Leigh] when she stops at the Bates Motel?" rather than the number of shots composing the shower scene or the significance of the close-up of Marion's eye at its end. Did you know, for example, that Anthony Perkins did not act in Psycho's famous shower scene because he was performing on Broadway when Hitchcock filmed the famous 93 shots? Kaska occasionally refuses to share her facts in a straightforward fashion, but the hardcore Hitchcock fan will delight in the random pages of trivia and the 66 quizzes -- one for each film and another dozen on the oeuvre and life of the director..."
Mister Smarty Pants Knows
Columns December 5, 1997
by Mr. Smarty Pants
"...According to one source, Victoria Principal was the first woman Anthony Perkins ever slept with...."
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