Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960: BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45p
This brilliant and disturbing film, which will feature an introduction, is part of the Powell & Pressburger season. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
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
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