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Peeping Tom
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Film Description
Michael Powell's controversial and disturbing masterpiece, about a focus puller whose relationship with his manipulative psychologist of a father leads him to obsessive voyeurism and murder, is now recognised as one of the supreme achievements of British horror cinema. In accurately linking the relationship between voyeurism and cinema it looked forward with intelligence to the franker treatment of sexual pathology to come. At the time though, it proved too much for critics to stomach and their hostility severely dented Powell's reputation.
Film Information
| Director | Michael Powell | ||||
| Starring | Anna Massey, Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer
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| Genre | Classic Film
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| Country | UK | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 1960 |
DVD Extras
New and exclusive introduction by Martin Scorsese; Exclusive audio commentary by Michael Powell expert Ian Christie; New and exclusive interview with Thelma Schoonmaker (editor and Michael Powell's widow); Documentary 'The Eye of the Beholder'; Documentary 'The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis'; Original theatrical trailer; Behind-the-scenes stills gallery; 24-page booklet containing essay, interview with screenwriter Leo Marks and an extract from Michael Powell's autobiography 'Million Dollar Movie'.
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 97 mins | Label | OPTIM | ||
| Cat No | OPTD0739 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | Widescreen | ||||
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Review by anon on 22nd February 2001
Enter the insane mind of a psycho-killer obsessed with recording on film the most intense fear as it registers on the faces of desirable women. For his camera tripod is fitted with a long blade designed to penetrate victims through the neck. And while they watch their own deaths reflected in a mirror attachment he captures their last gasps on celluloid for his evil home movie collection.
Review by Michael Brooke on 12th March 2007
One of the most psychologically complex and boundlessly inventive films ever to be made in Britain (let alone one of its more conservative eras), Michael Powell's psychological thriller is as audacious and important as the same year's Psycho. Unlike Hitchcock's classic, Peeping Tom was critically vilified and buried for nearly twenty years, only exhumed and rediscovered as a masterpiece thanks to the enthusiasm of Powell fans like Martin Scorsese, who contributes an introduction to this new DVD. Startlingly direct in its exploration of voyeurism and sadism, it's more disturbing than far more graphically explicit films because of the way it cunningly implicates the viewer in the obsessions of protagonist Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm). We recoil in horror from his crimes while being desperate to see more, especially if naked female flesh is thrown into the mix. Unlike most screen killers, Mark's boy-next-door normality is disconcertingly disarming – and he also has a plausible back-story, growing up the unwilling subject of experiments into the nature of fear by his morally bankrupt scientist father. The latter is played by Powell himself in one of many darkly witty touches, another being the delicious cameo by veteran Miles Malleson as an elderly pervert in a newsagent, or the sly mockery of the making of the kind of commercially safe film that Powell thought was destroying British cinema. In parallel with the moral knots of the central situation, there's an encyclopaedia of allusions and references to the process of seeing, whether directly or via the lens. Or, in one case, not involving the eyes at all: the one character that can see right through Mark is his would-be girlfriend's blind mother.
Although available on DVD in Britain for years, the American Criterion disc has been the connoisseur's choice until now. But Optimum's new special edition is a serious rival, offering a superb anamorphic transfer and wide-ranging extras, including two documentaries featuring Boehm, Scorsese, his editor (and Powell's widow) Thelma Schoonmaker, Bertrand Tavernier, Powell's son Columba, critics Ian Christie, Laura Mulvey and Charles Drazin, and psychoanalyst Olivier Bouvet. Christie also contributes an exhaustively researched commentary. Michael Brooke
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