2017 Directed by Josh Koury, Myles Kane
Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.
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the amount of attention and notoriety generated by two men who obviously feel entitled to attention and notoriety is frustrating, to say the least
There's this great moment where Gay Talese, in his respectable suit, sits down and tells the lady editor at the New Yorker his subject (Foos) is "not creepy."
It's great for two reasons. One, it is immediately followed by Foos giving an incredibly lurid and detailed description of watching his aunt naked through a window and masturbating. And also because the crew goes back to talk to the editor and she says that Foos is a sociopath.
Vogue's review of this piece is entitled "Voyeur, on Netflix, arrives at a Very Bad Time for Creepy Old Men" and that seems to be the right angle to take on this. Truthfully, it's a mess of conflicting emotions and stories. Foos details…
Once upon a time, somewhere in the span between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hunter S. Thompson, a dapper posse of aristocrat journalists thrived by combining pre-war sophistication with post-war sexuality. Belonging neither to the old world or the new, they were prophets of their present moment, a transitional group that helped lay the foundation for a culture that wouldn’t be able to accommodate them.
Gay Talese was perhaps the most notable of the group. The godfather of indulgent celebrity profiles, Talese elevated an entire medium by fleshing a routine portrait into a genuine piece of literature; published in the April 1966 issue of Esquire, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” might well outlive the magazine that paid for it. Talese became…
Most interesting thing about this is that a supposedly legendary New Journalism reporter with a history of writing about kinks and sexuality totally fails to a) actually report his fucking book and b) have any apparent inkling that his alleged voyeur would be motivated to lie by both ego and shame. Too bad the filmmakers don't seem to be real interested in that either. But it's still a fun story.
So I think I qualify as a vouyer now because I sat here watching two old men stroke their own egos for almost two hours
i think if your name is literally 'gay tales' then it is your moral obligation to be a journalist
man.... i just... fuck that. it would 100% be a better use of your time to just go watch the buzzfeed unsolved episode about the watcher. the watcher’s where it’s at
Weird movie. It’s like the personification of Norman Bates, about the owner of a motel spying on people. Writer Gay Talese gets involved and propels this guy to the spotlight. Well, it was very interesting, but toward the end I wish they would have just cut it by a few minutes, because it got a little painful.
This is the 83rd movie I saw with Movie Pass.
