112 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Georgine Darcy
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112 min) Starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, Rear Window is Hitchcock at the height of his visual powers. “The hero of Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Rear Window’ is trapped in a wheelchair, and we're trapped, too--trapped inside his point of view, inside his lack of freedom and his limited options. When he passes his long days and nights by shamelessly maintaining a secret watch on his neighbors, we share his obsession. It's wrong, we know, to spy on others, but after all, aren't we always voyeurs when we go to the movies? Here's a film about a man who does on the screen what we do in the audience--look through a lens at the private lives of strangers.” -Roger Ebert
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(Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112 min) Starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, Rear Window is Hitchcock at the height of his visual powers. “The hero of Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Rear Window’ is trapped in a wheelchair, and we're trapped, too--trapped inside his point of view, inside his lack of freedom and his limited options. When he passes his long days and nights by shamelessly maintaining a secret watch on his neighbors, we share his obsession. It's wrong, we know, to spy on others, but after all, aren't we always voyeurs when we go to the movies? Here's a film about a man who does on the screen what we do in the audience--look through a lens at the private lives of strangers.” -Roger Ebert
