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	Peeping Tom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peeping Tom is a slang term for a voyeur.
		Peeping Tom is the name of an Australian stoner-rock band.
		Peeping Tom (1960) is a film directed by Michael Powell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peeping_Tom (143 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Peeping Tom Movie Review
		Peeping Tom was released in Britain in 1960, only to vanish from theaters a week or so later.
		Peeping Tom's themes of voyeurism and its dark relationship with cinema had been previously toyed with in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and subsequently explored by the likes of Brian De Palma with Sisters (a film that even pays a winking homage to this film with a game show called "Peeping Toms").
		The romantic side of Peeping Tom is wonderfully tragic and the relationship between Mark and Helen is oddly touching.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /peepingtom.html (873 words)

	EUFS: Peeping Tom
		Peeping Tom tells the story of Mark, a quiet young man traumatized by his upbringing, such that he has developed a compulsion to observe and record terror, killing in order to do so.
		Well: Critics and audiences in 1960 were unprepared for Peeping Tom's relentless self-reflexive examination of the voyeurism and sadism explicit in the experience of watching movies, wanting to close their eyes as a means of denying their complicity in the events unfolding on screen.
		Peeping Tom is perhaps surprisingly realistic for a Powell film, further demonstrating his versatility.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/peeping_tom.html (1022 words)

	Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell
		The film takes its title from the character "peeping Tom" the voyeur in the tale of Lady Godiva, and is an horrific tale of voyeurism, serial murder and child abuse.
		Peeping Tom's portrait of Pinewood Studios is a farcical, bitter, almost vengeful picture of an industry's total complacency in the face of creative and economic decline.
		Peeping Tom is a summation of Powell's life in the cinema, perhaps particularly his polemics and his disappointments.
	www.jahsonic.com /PeepingTom.html (1878 words)

	DVD Times: Region 0 Reviews: Peeping Tom
		Michael Powell's Peeping Tom was the last major masterpiece by arguably Britain's greatest film-maker (Hitchcock was his only serious rival, and he spent most of his career in America).
		Peeping Tom tackles subjects that until then either hadn't been dealt with at all or had been buried under several tons of traditional British euphemistic reserve.
		Peeping Tom's chequered career has resulted in some pretty ropey prints going into circulation, but Criterion have thankfully taken the trouble to track down a good one - there are a few spots and scratches, but no more than I'd expect for a 40-year-old film.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/peepingtom.html (855 words)

	Amazon.com: Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection (1962): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The characters in Peeping Tom are more believable than the puppets Hitchcock moves around to create his "pure cinema." As freakish as Norman Bates is, as a personification of insanity he's as much a straw figure as Mother in the attic.
		When Peeping Tom was first released in 1960, it was universally reviled by critics and audiences alike for its sadism and mixing of sex and violence, and essentially ended the career of its director, Michael Powell.
		But what Peeping Tom asks is for us to sympathize with this man, because it is not entirely his fault that he is the way he is. The major conflict in the film is between Mark and himself, as he struggles to suppress his urges and contain his own fears.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780022629?v=glance (3845 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'Peeping Tom' and 'Psycho': Reinventing The Horror Film
		Peeping Tom and Psycho were both released in 1960, filmed by British directors and, unlike the vast majority of horror films before them, focused mainly on the 'monster' (or 'anti-heroes') of their stories.
		Peeping Tom was released early in 1960, prior to the more popular Psycho which was released later that year.
		While Peeping Tom was previewed by critics who gave it slating reviews due to its content, Hitchcock refused to let critics preview his film and they had to watch it with everyone else.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A407729 (2601 words)

	Images - Peeping Tom
		hen Peeping Tom was released in England in 1960, it was greeted with widespread critical condemnation.
		Peeping Tom remained buried and forgotten until 1979, when director Martin Scorsese helped unearth a print for screening at the New York Film Festival.
		Peeping Tom is available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in a new transfer created from restored film elements and enhanced for widescreen televisions.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue08/reviews/peepingtom/text.htm (1108 words)

	peeping Tom. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		After the legendary Peeping Tom of Coventry, England, who was the only person to see the naked Lady Godiva.
		In the original version of the story she was observed by all the townspeople as she disrobed, but in a much later version of the story a tailor or butcher named Tom was the only person to observe her as she rode by, everyone else having shuttered their windows as they had been asked.
		Peeping Tom, first recorded around 1796, has become a term for a voyeur, not at all a pleasant fate for this legendary fellow.
	www.bartleby.com /61/7/P0150700.html (243 words)

	The Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peeping Tom didn’t make me want to streak out of the cinema shrieking, as Franju’s film did at times; it gives me the creeps in retrospect, in my heart and mind more than in my eyes.
		Clearly, Peeping Tom and Psycho are very different films, despite their similarities, and it is not shocking that Hitchcock’s film would have drawn a larger audience, and that word of mouth on Psycho would have probably been more positive -- it had name stars popular with young people, and it was thrillsome to watch.
		Peeping Tom also faced such obstacles, and was thus denied even the limited success of low brow exploitation films which Hitchcock envisioned as Psycho’s worst case scenario.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~jrthomps/paper.htm (6616 words)

	Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Re-released in a new print at the Brattle, Peeping Tom remains a disturbing masterpiece of film psychology and pathology -- a critique and vindication of the century's foremost compulsion and art form, and a suspenseful, mordantly witty, ultimately moving entertainment.
		Taking solitary satisfaction at his handiwork in Peeping Tom's assaultive credit sequence is Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm, with Jon Voight's cherubic looks and Peter Lorre's creepy voice), who works as a focus puller for a movie studio and as a part-time photographer of girly pictures for a corner news shop.
		It's a good first-date ploy, shocking her but arousing her maternal instincts and perhaps her own morbid gaze (she is writing a children's book about "a magic camera and what it photographs").
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/03/18/PEEPING_TOM.html (535 words)

	Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
		The only really satisfactory way to dispose of Peeping Tom would be to shovel it up and flush it swiftly down the nearest sewer.
		Peeping Tom is a cornerstone in film history.
		Peeping Tom and Psycho: Reinventing the Horror Film, BBC h2g2, August 29, 2000.
	themargins.net /fps/film/peepingtom.html (468 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Peeping Tom
		Peeping Tom is told with the 'inspired simplicity' that its director Michael Powell brought to an armload of classics (The Thief of Bagdad, I Know Where I'm Going, The Red Shoes) that defy the rules of both their genres and the times in which they were made.
		Peeping Tom came about from the compassionate/ cold blooded relationship Marks had to maintain with his spy operatives, and the macabre intimacy he had with some of their horrible fates.
		Peeping Tom and Psycho are opposite sides of the same Horror coin, movies with completely different approaches to similar material.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s93peeprev.html (1384 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Peeping Tom" came out before "Psycho," and the comparisons are inevitable, although they seem as much the work of different times as of different directors.
		Serious film students will enjoy her insights and her comprehensive critique of the film as a true commentary on "Peeping Tom," and not the gay banter of actors and crew trying to come up with things to say that are so disappointing on so many commentary tracks.
		Peeping Tom is definately NOT ahead of it's time because (in my opinion)at the moment the world is being exposed to so much sex in relations to the media e.g.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780022629 (1684 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Powell's ``Peeping Tom,'' a 1960 movie about a man who filmed his victims as they died, broke the rules and crossed the line.
		Powell (1905-1990) was a director who loved rich colors, and ``Peeping Tom'' is shot in a saturated Technicolor with shots such as one where a victim's body under a bright red blanket stands out against the gray street.
		He was a virtuoso of camera use, and in ``Peeping Tom'' the basic strategy is to always suggest that we are not just seeing, but looking.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19990502/REVIEWS08/905020301/1023 (1183 words)

	Peeping Tom (1960)
		Carl Boehm plays Mark Lewis, a voyeur who totes his 16mm camera, equipped with a knife blade at the end of one of its tripod feet, wherever he goes.
		Peeping Tom is a virtuoso film which entertains on many levels.
		He comments that the idea for Peeping Tom arose out of his desire to "break the code" of a psychopath and notes that the slightly sympathetic characterization of Mark was purposeful.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1168&PID=10073463&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (713 words)

	Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tom P. is the most misunderstood character in the WWL.
		Tom also has a pet, his favorite animal the monkey.
		Tom spends most of his days playing with his monkey.
	www.angelfire.com /ms/elstempo/tomp.html (333 words)

	peeping tom -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The term derives from the legendary Peeping Tom, a prying tailor who was struck blind (in some accounts, struck dead) for opening his window and watching Lady Godiva as she rode naked through Coventry to demonstrate against heavy taxes on the town.
		A brilliant Czech-born playwright, Tom Stoppard is noted for his skill with the English language and his ironic themes.
		With a lifetime earned-run average (ERA) of 2.86, a record of 311–205, and 3,640 career strikeouts, right-handed pitcher Tom Seaver was almost a unanimous choice for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058950?tocId=9058950 (603 words)

	Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peeping Tom A-, A- GB/1960/Color/Widescreen 1.66:1/Mono/109 minutes/Directed by Michael Powell/Starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer/Voyager/29 Chaps/Audio Commentary/CLV/$49.955
		What at first might seem like an excuse for Shearer to show off her dancing versatility, the long thirteen plus minute sequence is extremely effective at building unbearable tension climaxing in a full-throated lens-filling scream.
		All of the production elements of Peeping Tom are first rate, from the appropriately grating jazz scoring by Brian Easdale and Wally Stott to the stark and economical set design by Arthur Lawson.
	www.filmsondisc.com /LaserReview/peeping.htm (724 words)

	Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You could say that Peeping Tom is the film that closed the door on Michael Powell's film career, so harsh was critical reception.
		It is mind boggling to think that a creative and daring filmmaker such as Powell would make his last film at the age of 55 while still at the height of his cinematic power simply because of what the industry perceived as one, wild, misstep.
		Peeping Tom is a difficult and modern film, more comfortable in company with contemporary sophistication, though it is a very stylized and elegant production.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/peeping_tom.htm (876 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Peeping Tom: Criterion Collection
		This Criterion Collection release of Peeping Tom on DVD is the new definitive version of the film.
		The reasons Peeping Tom was so reviled in 1960 were myriad, but I want to touch on a few of them here.
		Peeping Tom is shot in a saturated Technicolor that is so brilliant, it oozes a life of its own.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/peepingtomcc.shtml (1302 words)

	Pamela Green: Peeping Tom
		The World Premiere of "Peeping Tom" was held on April 7 1960 at the Plaza Cinema, Piccadilly.
		Looking at "Peeping Tom" thirty-five years on, the film was perhaps one of the most notorious British films ever made.
		It was a startling treatment of voyeurism and the mechanics of the cinema, wrapped in the clothes of a lurid thriller.
	www.pamela-green.com /tom.live (4710 words)

	Peeping Tom
		Originally released in Britain in March 1960, Peeping Tom was greeted with a torrent of critical abuse, as well as moral denunciation (1).
		With Peeping Tom, Michael Powell and scriptwriter Leo Marks created a dark and horrific portrayal of a sadistic killer who is helplessly possessed by an obsession with filming fear.
		Peeping Tom remains an unsettling, disturbing, and unforgettable psychological and visual exploration into the sadistic obsession with fear experienced by a psychopathic killer.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/36/peeping_tom.html (1094 words)

	A Very Tender Film, a Very Nice One
		Much bloodier than Peeping Tom were the Hammer horrors of the period - but their creators got off the critical hook far more easily.
		Peeping Tom is the only subversive statement on the fascination of the cinema ever filmed.
		The police investigating his crimes are also Peeping Toms; the giggling psychiatrist who hovers over and peers down at the film studio is one, too.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/60_PT/AVeryTenderFilm.html (2012 words)

	Peeping Tom (1960) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		`Peeping Tom' all but completely destroyed Powell's career; and however much and for whatever reasons critics and audiences may have loathed the film, this simply ought not have happened - especially since, good or bad, it's manifestly the work of a director at the height of his powers.
		The photography is wonderfully assured, the colours are as bright and stark and controlled and fantastic as ever, the script is clever and trusts to our intelligence, and Powell still knows how to keep our minds glued to the screen even when our eyes tell us that nothing much is happening.
		Not that this is an overt message of `Peeping Tom', and not that there aren't a lot of other things going on as well.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0054167 (602 words)

	Look at the Sea: Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the age of nine, Thomas Hardy, the greatest of English novelists, justly famed as a sensitive landscape painter of the southern counties, borrowed a nautical telescope and climbed the hill neighbouring his cottage to watch, in the pleasant town of Dorchester two miles away, the public hanging of a young woman.
		The father is an academic who devoted his life to a study of the psychology of fear, using as a guinea-pig his own son, whose every emotion he photographs and records.
		This pleasantly familar title of `Peeping Tom' also applies to the spectator, who is exceptionally privileged here: for is he not permitted to indulge that acme of voyeurism which consists in observing the voyeur, seeing what he sees and watching him watch?
	powell.ifrance.com /powell/nversion/lookat.htm (1059 words)

	Peeping Tom webcam worm created by virus writers - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peeping Tom webcam worm created by virus writers
		Virus writers have developed a 'Peeping Tom' worm that can use webcams to spy on computer users in their home or workplace, internet security watchers have warned.
		At home it is equivalent to a Peeping Tom who invades your privacy by peering through your curtains.
	www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2125724/peeping-tom-webcam-worm-created-virus-writers (521 words)

	PEEPING TOM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The running time of Peeping Tom has been the object of some dispute over the years, with the original press materials reporting it as 109 minutes.
		Considering its reputation, Peeping Tom is a surprisingly restrained and contemplative film, with no gore or sex actually depicting on camera.
		Devoted to the creation of Peeping Tom and the life of its screenwriter, Leo Marks, this is brisk, fascinating viewing, crammed with odd and unusual details about the various themes and life experiences which led a one time World War II codebreaker to write such a challenging, unorthodox screenplay.
	www.mondo-digital.com /peepingtom.html (720 words)

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