Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Logging

Film:  Peeping Tom

This is a fantastic movie.  I almost can't believe how good.  Maybe it just caught me at the right moment or something.  Sure, it was made in 1960, so it suffers from being a bit dated.  But it came out 3 months before Psycho -- one of the most influential films of all time -- and to me, it blows Psycho out of the water.

As a double feature, it could be shown with any number of movies.  You could do a British pairing of protagonist as serial killer movies from the 1960s with The Collector.  You could pair it with Psycho.  You could pair it with any of DePalma's voyeur films - Blow Out, Body Double.  You could pair it with 8 1/2 and other movies about the world of filmmaking.  Man...just goes to show...you can still be surprised and delighted by the movies.  Even old ones.

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