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	Peeping Tom (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peeping Tom is a 1960 psychological horror film by the British film director 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.
		Some film critics have perceived this film to be the predecessor to the slasher films that would follow in the succeeding decades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peeping_Tom_(film) (240 words)

	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 (145 words)

	Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell
		Why was the film such a critical disaster' The story reaches both back into the history of British film culture and forward to new developments in film criticism which have attempted to account for its shock effect.
		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)

	Peeping Tom Review At DVDwolf.com
		We peruse a couple of films, and discuss them...sometimes pausing the film as it goes to draw parallels, or, depending on the film, to heckle it.
		Peeping Tom, a film by Michael Powell, influential it seems on many directors of the past decades is one that had us both discussing the details, watching the technical aspects and heckling it for reasons that it can not avoid.
		Peeping Tom is often referred to as a British Psycho and ot without good reason...Psycho also has that horrible last 5 or six minutes full of psycho babble at the end that should be cut.
	www.dvdwolf.com /templates/dsp_movie.php?u_movieid=55072 (392 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.
		At the beginning of the film, the story follows the exploits of a young real estate secretary, Marion Crane, beginning with her adulterous affair in a hotel and followed by her decision to steal a large amount of cash from her office.
		The film is special for many reasons, from the meticulously planned camerawork (director Hitchcock is well known for his storyboards) and surprising plot, its graphic violence (the detective was stabbed at the head of a staircase and staggered down it backwards before collapsing) and gimmicky marketing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A407729 (2601 words)

	Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
		Peeping Tom is a cornerstone in film history.
		Peeping Tom is a film of many layers and masks; its first reviewers were unable even to see it at face value.
		Peeping Tom and Psycho: Reinventing the Horror Film, BBC h2g2, August 29, 2000.
	themargins.net /fps/film/peepingtom.html (468 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Peeping Tom Movie Review
		The film would probably be buried in a dusty vault somewhere today if Martin Scorsese hadn't resurrected it by sponsoring revivals and restorations of the film in the late 1970s.
		The film is about a meek cameraman named Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm), who has a job as a focus puller at a local movie studio and moonlights as a photographer for nudie magazines.
		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").
	www.flipsidemovies.com /peepingtom.html (873 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Peeping Tom
		Peeping Tom was made in 1959 by British director Michael Powell.
		Its central character is a young cameraman and thus the story of voyeuristic perversion is, equally overtly, set within the film industry and the cinema itself, foregrounding its mechanisms of looking, and the gender divide that separates the secret observer (male) from the object of his gaze (female).
		It is this relentless exposure of cinematic conventions and assumptions that has attracted the interest of feminist film critics, and the recent application of psychoanalytic theory to film theory clearly reveals the film’s psychoanalytic frame of reference.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=58&eid=73§ion=essay (377 words)

	village voice > film > by J. Hoberman
		He's about to show her his latest snuff film but, getting a grip, instead projects the home movies taken by his father, a behavioral psychologist obsessed with documenting the effects of fear on the nervous system.
		But mainly, Peeping Tom was loathed because it was understood as an attack on the entire film-viewing machine.
		Predictably, it remained for the French to appreciate Powell's film maudit—the equation between photography and physical assault, the suggestion that the subject was the screen for the photographer's rage.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/9904,hoberman,3641,20.html (1056 words)

	The Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		When the films were released, Powell viewed his creation complete, and left it in the hands of others: the critics and the producers who didn’t know what to make of this brilliant film, and so, destroyed it.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~jrthomps/paper.htm (6616 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: FILM Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom straightforwardly tells a story from Freud’s back, back pages: Mark (Karlheinz Böhm) is a man so mishandled as a child by his father and mother that he has turned into an aberrant adult.
		No, what makes Peeping such a cruel treat is how Mark was abused—his father, a psychologist studying fear, would wake him in his bed at night and film Mark while he dropped lizards into his bed, that sort of thing.
		Peeping Tom is a movie about looking and spectatorship, one that casts voyeurs—such as, you know, moviegoers—as sheepish, if sympathetic, monsters.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=4843 (224 words)

	Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cinema as sublimated sexual aggression and death wish, the camera as phallus, photography as violation, and film as ritualized voyeurism -- or as a jolly psychiatrist describes it later in the film, "scoptophilia -- the morbid gaze."
		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.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/03/18/PEEPING_TOM.html (535 words)

	notcoming.com \| Peeping Tom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peeping Tom followed a train of successes from British filmmaker Michael Powell, who, along with scenarist Emric Pressberger, is responsible for The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; Peeping Tom was critically rejected and banned, and although not his final film, it is seen as Powell’s career-ender.
		The film’s controversy is timeless, as it visibly exploits the voyeuristic nature of film.
		However, Psycho is limited in the existential relevance of its horror; Peeping Tom, conversely, is akin to the psychological nature of filmmaking.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews/peepingtom.html (845 words)

	Peeping Tom (1960) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PEEPING TOM plays it straight all the way through, effectively showing how a tormented childhood turned an innocent boy into a killer who wants to see the fear on his victim's faces.
		And the woman who might have made a more attractive co-star, Moira Shearer, is given short shrift with an underwritten role and a brief appearance as a wannabe dancer/actress, although she gets star billing.
		Still, as a study of a troubled man, PEEPING TOM does have its compensations--excellent color photography and interesting use of a jazz music background.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0054167 (635 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Peeping Tom
		THE TITLE of the 1960 film Peeping Tom is a rebuke to moviegoers, who sit guilty as charged.
		Mark was the subject of cruel experiments by his psychiatrist father (voiced by director Powell); dad used to toss lizards in his bed to wake the child--and film the results.
		Peeping Tom (Unrated; 101 min.), directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, photographed by Otto Heller and starring Carl Boehm and Anna Massey.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.15.99/peepingtom-9915.html (521 words)

	Peeping Tom
		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.
		Film grain is tightly replicated with consistently sharp images.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/peeping_tom.htm (876 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Peeping Tom (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell's extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman-his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult.
		Since this is a Criterion Collection DVD the presentation of the film is done right, with a commentary track by film theorist Laura Mulvey who combines criticism of the film with the history of the film, cast, and crew.
		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.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780022629 (1511 words)

	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
		Most critical evaluations of British film in the decades between 1940 and the early 1970s generally favour those films which are more closely aligned with the techniques and traditions of documentary, realism and socially conscious drama (or its comic counterpart, the Ealing comedy).
		Thus, the ‘difficulty’ of placing or situating Powell and Pressburger’s films is largely the result of their mixed and hybrid nature and the problems one encounters in trying to place them, even loosely, within one of these two basic traditions, and British cinema as a whole.
		Rather, aspects of and situations in their films are, in many ways, closer to some of the mechanisms that precede cinema such as the diorama, the camera obscura, the lantern show and the fakery and self-conscious ornamentation of much nineteenth century studio photography.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/powell.html (3675 words)

	CityBeat Film Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Michael Powell's sensational 1960 thriller Peeping Tom, a psychopath films his murder victims at the moment of their death.
		Peeping Tom was a scandal at the time of its release and Powell later credited the film for essentially ending his directing career.
		Originally released in the United States at a shortened 89 minutes, this restored print is a rare chance to see Peeping Tom in its entirety.
	www.citybeat.com /gbase/Film/FilmReview?filmreview=oid:55216 (81 words)

	Peeping Tom: The Criteion Collection DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is not because the movie is bad, but because the film is quite disturbing on some visceral level and yet there is no gore and the murders are never actually shown the way one might see someone murder another in a modern horror movie.
		"Peeping Tom" was panned by the British Press and then banned and practically ruined Director Michel Powell's career for many years after.
		The voyeurism mirrors the viewer consciously watching the film about this killer and thus the experience becomes even more uncomfortable and yet there is no denying that this film is not only ahead of its time, but also quite compelling.
	members.aol.com /WriterR5/Tom_DVD.html (527 words)

	Peeping Tom Movie: Peeping Tom DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		An acclaimed and abhorred film about a man raised by a scientist who devoted his life to the study of the psychology of fear, using his own son as his guinea pig.
		The film was re-released in the United States in 1994.
		When Mark was a child, his father, a highly esteemed professor, used him as a form of laboratory rat in a series of experiments that tested various levels of fear.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/037429142929IE (398 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Peeping Tom
		A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell’s extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman—his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult.
		Reviled by critics upon its initial release for its deeply unsettling subject matter, the film has since been hailed as a masterpiece.
		Peeping Tom is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=58 (85 words)

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		Peeping Tom effectively ruined Powell’s career as critics were outraged by what one called "the sickest and filthiest film I remember seeing".
		Film grain is noticeable but adds to the gritty, shadowy feel of the film.
		Peeping Tom may not be well known, but it deserves to be recognized as a challenging, artistic horror film.
	www.dvdmon.com /videoreview.asp?varGenre=Drama&keyVideoID=290 (1297 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Powell's bizarre, unforgettable film has since become a legend for cinephiles and academics interested in feminist applications and the film as a reflection of the psychology dimensions to cinema.
		Though the film was drastically cut during its initial 1960 release, it was restored by one of its most famous fans, director Martin Scorsese in 1979.
		Almost a romantic film." At the same time, it was, in his own words, the film that "truly ruined me: after it, it was impossible to get funds for other projects.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,102771\|102772\|102783,00.html (1001 words)

	Peeping Tom [1959] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings.
		Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema.
		Presented in anamorphic widescreen, Peeping Tom shows the seedy-looking cinematography in all of its glory, and the soundtrack is pin-sharp, making the most of Brian Easdale's haunting piano music.
	hallmovies.com /store-uk/dvd-uk_B000056QAL_Peeping-Tom-[1959].html (419 words)

	screenonline: Peeping Tom (1960)
		Severely disturbed as a result of his abusive and manipulative psychologist father, he is gripped by an obsessive voyeurism that leads him to murder.
		These experiences have turned Mark into a voyeur, driven to capture all of his experiences on film - he works as a focus puller in a film studio, and devotes his free time to his 'documentary'.
		They have also left him with an obsession with fear, and his killing is fed by his compulsion to capture on film the exact expression of fear at the moment of death.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/447463 (429 words)

	The DVD Journal: Quick Reviews: Peeping Tom: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This mesmerizing study in fear scandalized the British film community upon its release in 1960, deemed appallingly sordid and salacious by critics and the press.
		Also aggressive, unfortunately, is the score, which occasionally builds to overbearing crescendos in a film otherwise notable for its masterful use of silence and sound effects.
		Includes scholarly commentary by film theorist Laura Mulvey and the terrific BBC documentary, A Very British Psycho, which covers both the film's struggle for acceptance and the fascinating life of scribe Marks, who was one of the Allied forces' top code-breakers in WWII.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/peepingtom.q.html (327 words)

	Peeping Tom: The Criterion Collection DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This updated release of "Peeping Tom" on DVD features a new widescreen anamorphic transfer created from restored elements in an aspect ratio of (1.66:1).
		The film centers on a psychopathic cameraman who exercises his childhood traumas and sexual dysfunction by consistently acting out his aggressions on women by filming their murders and then filming the bodies being discovered without regard for being caught.
		What makes the film disturbing are the implied trauma he has suffered as a boy that is every bit as disturbing as his American Counterpart, Norman Bates.
	members.aol.com /RiveraW5/peeping_tom.html (527 words)

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