The Whitsell Auditorium of the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, is running a "British Noir" season from 17 December to 3 January. They aren't showing The Small Back Room, but they are showing Peeping Tom on Sat. Dec. 26, 5pm; Sun. Dec. 27, 7pm; Sun. Jan. 3, 7pm.
Peeping Tom
Director: Michael Powell
Great Britain, 1960
"The bodies pile up as sensitive film studio focus puller Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) moonlights as a 'private' photographer of scantily clad women, while obsessively working on his own 'documentary' with the world's most lethal tripod. Obviously, this perverse examination of 'scoptophilia' wasn't expected from the director of such artistically acclaimed works as Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, and Powell's career was effectively destroyed by the critical savaging: 'The sickest and filthiest film I remember seeing' - 'It's been a long time since a film disgusted me as much as Peeping Tom'... In the ensuing decades, the film's stature has skyrocketed, with critics and audiences continuing to cringe at its unsettling mayhem, their nerves already lacerated by the garish color photography and design, as well as the jangling piano-and-bongo score." - Film Forum.
"Visually elegant, endlessly perverse. This film's endless, often outrageously Freudian allusions to the nature of seeing, possessing, and exploiting make it one of a kind. Its status as the kinkiest of cinema-conscious classics remains assured." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times.
Kelli Holloway, on the faculty of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute (OPI), is a psychodynamically oriented psychiatrist who specializes in issues related to depression/anxiety, trauma, professional and life transitions, and interpersonal relationships. She and Scott Murray, a psychiatrist and student at the OPI, will lead a post-film discussion after the screening on January 3.
See their web site for details and tickets
