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Peeping Tom |
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(07/10/06 9:28 AM) |
I'm probably too late giving this heads-up, but I just found out this morning.
TCM will be showing Peeping Tom today at 3:00 EST. My DVR is set. http://www.necromerica.blogspot.com
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Koukol 5 |
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(07/10/06 5:34 PM) |
As good as this film is, i don't think it holds up well. I mean, this film distroyed alot of careers, at the time, with it's shocking story. But i finally got a hold of the Criterion disc and i was expecting alot more for such a horrible subject as snuff films. Edit But for it's time... what a shocker.
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(04/05/08 10:35 PM) |
I'm surprised there's not more love for Peeping Tom here. I think it's a weird premise, the killer is played in an oddly affecting way, and the
kills are powerful, for their time. And I like the way the film has us take part in the crimes, and the voyer aspect of the story us stronger than Psycho's
(though Psycho is a better overall film, PT ain't to shabby).
If anybody's interested, there is some great memories displayed concerning the filming at Pamela Green's Website |
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(04/07/08 1:22 PM) |
I, too, have the Criterion and I think it's a fabulous film... par for the course for Mr. Powell. And what an interesting story the screenwriters life
would make... see the documentary on the disc.
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(04/07/08 7:02 PM) |
I, too, think this is a great movie. I saw it in a theater in the 1960s without having heard a thing about it. I was floored. I think
it holds up just fine. I don't think it damaged any careers other than Michael Powell's.
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Alias the Scarecrow |
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(04/09/08 7:24 AM) |
This is currently being shown on the cable systems in the New England area on the On Demand feature for free movies..I watched it last & was pleasantly
surprised to see this on there instead of the usual junk.
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professor liebstrum |
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(04/10/08 8:20 AM) |
I think I've seen all the Powell and Pressburger films, I don't think it's possible to have a more rewarding time in front on the TV.
It's hard to imagine these days a film inspiring the revulsion that PT was supposed to have but I wonder if part of it was people waiting for Michael
Powell to trip up.
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(04/14/08 2:44 PM) |
It's ironic that had Powell been the showman that the publicity-savvy Alfred Hitchcock was, PEEPING TOM might have been as successful as PSYCHO which
came out around the same time. I don't believe that PSYCHO's reviews at the time were all that favorable either, but it enjoyed box office success and
a healthy reputation over the years while PEEPING TOM fell by the wayside after getting crushed by critics. There was a good article about both films a while
back in one of the magazines, but I can't remember which magazine.
Happened to catch Powell's BLACK NARCISSUS again a few weeks ago on cable. Another gem. |
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Professor Von X |
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(04/16/08 12:24 PM) |
I'm probably going to be buying the giant R2 Powell/Pressburger box soon. My only disappointment with it is that it doesn't include The Small Back
Room, a real gem of a film. There's an OOP R2 single of it, but it goes for silly sums.
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(04/22/08 5:36 PM) |
Saw this in a theatre seveal years back when Martin Scorsese did a restoration. It held up very nicely - better than I remembered it from TV. The
"shocks" aren't much by today's standards, but there is a wonderful overall creepiness to the whole thing.
And for some reason it's hysterically funny when the serial killer casually announces, "I hope to be a film director." 
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professor liebstrum |
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(04/22/08 5:50 PM) |
And for some reason it's hysterically funny when the serial killer casually announces, "I hope to be a film director." Yes, and I like the line too when he's asked which newspaper he's with and replies "The Observer" |
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(04/23/08 4:08 AM) |
I've always held this in high regard because of the chapter in David Pirie's book HERITAGE OF HORROR which places it in a 'Sadean trilogy' with
HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM and CIRCUS OF HORRORS. A very enlightening triple bill of films that marked British horror films turning a corner.
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(06/30/08 4:59 PM) |
One of my favorite films actually, the ending is a really sad.
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BijouBob8mm |
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(06/30/08 5:14 PM) |
I've still yet to see PEEPING TOM from start to finish, alas. On a more positive note, I did finally sit down and watch another vintage British thriller,
BLOW OUT, over the weekend.
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(06/30/08 5:20 PM) |
BijouBob8mm wrote: Oh you must see Peeping Tom and the whole controversy arising from the film is the fact is its sympathetic portrayal of a serial killer. Antonioni's Blow Out is an outstanding film itself. |
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(06/30/08 8:35 PM) |
Antonioni's BLOW-UP is even better than his (sic) BLOW OUT, guys.
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(06/30/08 8:58 PM) |
lol
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(07/01/08 4:38 AM) |
lol oops! |
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BijouBob8mm |
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(07/01/08 10:09 AM) |
Antonioni's BLOW-UP is even better than his (sic) BLOW OUT, guysBut nothing matches my blowing it, title wise! 
Although I sit here, red-faced among my amigos, I did in fact mean 1966's BLOW-UP, and not the Brian De Palma/John Travolta BLOW OUT from 1981.
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professor liebstrum |
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(07/01/08 6:03 PM) |
I like BLOW UP, not least for the Yardbirds footage. Rumour has it though that Antonioni wanted the Velvet Underground for the sequence in the night club and
they couldn't afford to make the trip to the UK. Colour footage of the Velvets in their prime would be fantastic.
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Koukol 5 |
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(07/01/08 8:53 PM) |
It's great to see Jimi and Jeff play Train Kept a Rollin!
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