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Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

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Date: 24 Feb 2015 11:53:00
Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Peeping Tom (1960)
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Artwork | 01:41:30 | 7,92 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English SDH; added: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Classics | The Criterion Collection #58

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer

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.

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One of the central principles of filmmaking is that everybody wants to see themselves up on screen - to see, that is, a character with whom they can closely identify - but nobody wants to see themselves reflected too accurately. Immensely controversial on its original release, Peeping Tom is a film all about watching and identification, a film whose real horror hinges on the way it implicates the audience in its dark voyeurism.

Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Carl Boehm plays Mark, the archetypal nice young man, shy and a bit reclusive but easy to like. Helen (Anna Massey), his downstairs neighbour, likes him very much, and they watch each other from a distance even as a wary friendship builds, she protectively, he in an uncertain way that challenges his understanding of the world and threatens to destabilise his carefully structured world. Yet Mark's structures are not healthy ones, and the dark experiments to which his father subjected him in childhood are not the only secret he harbours. This isn't a film about a nice young man who slips into madness; it's a film about somebody who is already there. With a sharp spike attached to the front of his film camera, Mark goes out looking for young women to star in his own private horror films, inflicting his own voyeurism upon them as he forces them to watch themselves.
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Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Sometimes described as the British counterpart to Psycho, Peeping Tom goes a step further in implicating those who develop the psychoanalytic theories on which it is based. The shadowy figure of Mark's father (played by the director - this is, of course, his film) is only briefly glimpsed, escaping the voyeuristic power of the camera. He's a psychiatrist who has built his reputation on what he learned by repeatedly terrifying his son. The relationship between them is as central to the film as Mark's relationship to the women he kills, or to those he photographs in sleazy poses to make his living.

Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

This sleaze attached itself to the reputation of Peeping Tom, too, with a brief glimpse of naked breast a challenging first for British cinema. It may not have the same power to shock now, but the implication remains constant, as the viewer is invited to objectify Mark's victims, these characters sacrificed in a celluloid fantasy just as the women are sacrificed for real in Mark's world. We may now have become used to seeing terrified women killed for entertainment, but Peeping Tom reminds us that there's something not quite right in the head about this, and in doing so it captures a visceral relationship with onscreen violence that the modern horror film has largely lost.

Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Old-fashioned in style perhaps, but sharply intelligent, witty and genuinely chilling, Peeping Tom remains well worth watching.
Eye For Film
Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

The grisly release history of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom would be enough on its own to guarantee its cult status. In 1960, hostile reviewers and panicky distributors famously sank this film and Peeping Tom became hardly more than a rumour, a forbidden text. Successive audiences have been fascinated and appalled that it features the director himself and his then nine-year-old son Columba, in cameo, playing the killer's father filming his child's very real-looking reaction to sadistic "fear" experiments.

Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Arguably, all this has caused the sensational Peeping Tom to be overvalued in relation to the rest of Powell's films – and yes, maybe it does sag a little, after its lethally macabre and brilliant opening scenes. But if anything deserves the "dark masterpiece" tag, this does: a brilliant satirical insight into the neurotic, pornographic element in the act of filming, more relevant than ever in the age of reality television and CCTV. Carl Boehm plays Mark, a focus-puller at a movie studio, part-time porn photographer and compulsive amateur film-maker, who has amassed a huge snuff-porn collection of black-and-white footage showing him murdering prostitutes – with a still more horrendous refinement, not revealed until the very end.

Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Peeping Tom has a resemblance to Powell's The Red Shoes: it features a dancer played by Moira Shearer and a tortured, Germanic-sounding anti-hero. (How, I wonder, would Anton Walbrook have played the Mark role?) There's hardly anything more extraordinary in British cinema than Mark's Ballardian passion in the seedy photo studio, seeing his new model has an ugly deformity: "They said you needn't photograph my face," she sneers with poignantly empty bravado. "I vant to… I vant to!" he gasps. An intimately disturbing experience.
Guardian
Peeping Tom (1960) [The Criterion Collection #58] [ReUp]

Special Features:
- New widescreen digital transfer, created from restored film elements and enhanced for widescreen televisions
- Audio essay by renowned film theorist Laura Mulvey
- Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
- A Very British Psycho, directed by Chris Rodley: the Channel 4 U.K. documentary about the life of screenwriter Leo Marks, as well as the making and critical reception of Peeping Tom
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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