Hitchcock Retrospective: PSYCHO

Experience Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO on the BIG SCREEN in the Historic Camelot Theatre! OCTOBER 9 | Psycho (1960) Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh A stolen fortune, an isolated motel, and a shower that changed cinema.With Psycho, Hitchcock shattered expectations about what a Hollywood thriller could be. Beginning as a story of crime and escape before taking one of cinema’s most famous turns, the film uses editing, music, suggestion, and carefully controlled point of view to make the audience complicit in its unease. More than sixty years later, the Bates Motel remains open for business. 5PM Foodie Fridays 6PM Pre-Show: Vintage Trailers, Clips 7PM Screening + Film Q&A with Richard L. Edwards + Vanessa Theme Ament Historic Camelot Theatre | Palm Springs Cultural Center Richard L. Edwards is Executive Director of XCITE at UC Riverside and holds a PhD in Film Studies from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He taught the acclaimed TCM online course 50 Years of Hitchcock, co-hosts the popular podcast Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir, and co-authored The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Political Criticism. A noted Hitchcock and noir scholar, Edwards also hosts NoirCon at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, featuring classic noir screenings at the Camelot Theatre. Vanessa Theme Ament brings a rare combination of firsthand Hollywood experience and film scholarship to the Hitchcock Retrospective. An award-winning Foley artist, author, educator, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Moving Image Studies, Ament offers an insider’s perspective on the history, craft, and evolution of cinema.