Voyeur

Myles Kane, Josh Koury
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

This documentary chronicles the relationship between veteran New York journalist Gay Talese and the enigmatic subject of his controversial book The Voyeur’s Motel, Gerald Foos, who bought a motel in Colorado in the 1960s, and furnished the rooms with louvered vents that allowed him to spy on his guests.

DIRECTOR
Myles Kane, Josh Koury
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
96 minutes

Note: The screening on October 15 will now take place at the Howard Gilman Theater.

Q&As with Myles Kane and Josh Koury following the screenings on 10/4 (with Gay Talese) and 10/5

Gerald Foos bought a motel in Colorado in the 1960s, furnished the room with louvered vents that allowed him to spy on his guests, and kept a journal of their sexual encounters…among other things. As writer Gay Talese, who had known Foos for more than three decades, came close to the publication of his book The Voyeur’s Motel (preceded by an excerpt in The New Yorker), factual discrepancies in Foos’s account emerged, and documentarians Kane and Koury were on hand to record some wild encounters between the veteran New York journalist and his enigmatic subject. A Netflix release.

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