Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM (21st FILM NOIR FEST)

Jul 18 & 19
Fri and Sat 6:15pm only!
Dir. Michael Powell - 1960 - 86m - UK
DOUBLE FEATURED (2 movies for the price of one!) WITH FRITZ LANG'S M!
Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions. Received with revulsion upon its release only to be reclaimed as a masterpiece, the endlessly analyzed, still-shocking Peeping Tom dares viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
"A horror classic of the highest order, a piece of master filmmaking by an iconic artist at the top of his game." - Lee Jutton, Film Inquiry
"One of the first -- and still one of the best -- cinematic journeys into the mind of a psychopath." - David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
"Now justly recognized as a classic of its disturbing kind, treating its material with a restraint, seriousness, and compassion that many of today's filmmakers could learn from." - David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor