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Peeping Tom

Directed by Michael Powell
1960
UK
101 minutes
M
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Michael Powell’s psychological thriller about a young man who films the murders he commits was critically savaged upon its release in 1960. It’s now widely regarded as a masterpiece.

When the British press condemned Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s career was effectively ruined. In his 1986 autobiography, Powell wrote: “I make a film that nobody wants to see and then, thirty years later, everybody has either seen it or wants to see it.” Long championed by filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, this fear-drenched tale of voyeurism and psycho-sexual desire now regularly appears on lists of the greatest British films ever made. Arriving in the same year as Norman Bates in Psycho, Powell’s portrait of sociopathic film technician Mark Lewis (a superb Karlheinz Böhm) is a riveting study in what it means to make movies – and watch them. Also check out Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, narrated by Martin Scorsese and screening in the Festival.

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.
It's a long time since a film disgusted me as much as Peeping Tom … a beastly film
Caroline Lejeune, The Observer (1960)
The only really satisfactory way to dispose of Peeping Tom would be to shovel it up and flush it swiftly down the nearest sewer
Derek Hill, The Tribune (1960)
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
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (2010)

Tickets

Sat 8 Jun
8:15pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Sun 9 Jun
3pm
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Classics Restored
Year
1960
Classification
M
Country
UK
Language
In English
Director
Michael Powell
Producer
Michael Powell
Cast
Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Screenwriter
Leo Marks
Cinematographer
Otto Heller
Editor
Noreen Ackland
Genre
Horror, Cinephile, Off-Beat, Gender & Sexuality, Retrospective, Experimental
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
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