APOLOGIES: it would appear that Riverside Studios have had to cancel this double-bill as the films are no longer in the schedule for tonight.
Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960) and Berberian Sound Studio (Strickland, 2011):
Riverside Studios Cinema, 7pm & 9.05pm
This great double-bill is also screening on Mon October 1 at the Riverside.
Chicago reader review of Peeping Tom:
'Michael Powell's suppressed masterpiece, made in 1960 but sparsely shown
in the U.S. with its ferocity and compassion intact. The German actor
Carl Boehm plays a shy, sensitive British boy (Powell doesn't try to
cover his accent, which is typical of the film's deliberate sacrifice of
realism for effect) who loves movies with all his heart and soul
because he knows what they're
really
about—sex and death. This seductive, brightly colored thriller isn't
about the “problem” of voyeurism as much as the sub-rosa fascinations of
the cinema. It's an understanding and at times even celebratory
film—attitudes that scandalized critics years ago and are still pretty
potent today. The uniformly excellent cast includes Anna Massey, Moira
Shearer (the ballerina of Powell's The Red Shoes), and Maxine Audley' Dave Kehr
(Peeping Tom trailer here.)
Time Out review of Berberian Sound Studio:
'Toby Jones hits a career best as Gilderoy, an English sound recordist who, in the
early 1970s, arrives at an Italian recording studio to work on the Foley
track of a groundbreaking new horror picture. A buttoned-down mother’s
boy who works in his garden shed, Gilderoy is unprepared for the graphic
scenes of torture he’s forced to witness. The intensity of the project,
coupled with a deep longing for home, begins to play havoc with his
mental state.‘Berberian Sound Studio’ is, at heart, a cine-literate
horror film, despite its complete lack of on-screen violence. Strickland
uses his set-up as a way to explore horror and the effect it can have
on a sensitive soul, with particular focus on the sudden explosion of
graphic images in the ’70s. His conclusions may be oblique, but his
methods – using sound effects and dialogue to create moments of
discomfort – are remarkable.' Tom Huddleston
Here is the trailer.
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