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Film
24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro

When

Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 (10am)

Where
Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave, 212.423.3500)
Price
$18
Details
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events?option=com_calendar&task=showevent&mt=1231218000&mh=+%40+10%3A00%26nbsp%3Ba.m.&aid=2416
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Back in the '80s, there were those lamentable Psycho sequels in which Anthony Perkins milked Norman Bates' dementia. Then, in 1998, came Gus van Sant's why-bother remake, which essentially ran the original through a color copier. But between the inferior spin-offs, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon masterfully transfigured Alfred Hitchcock's notorious classic into a heady, all-day endeavor with 24 Hour Psycho. In his conceptual screed, Gordon elongates — and, on one side of the split-screened presentation, reverses — Hitch's scenes to probe the time-tied relationship between memory and the image. Seen again at about 1/13 its recollected speed, Janet Leigh's iconic shower regains its white-knuckle shock factor.

Jason Jude Chan