Speed Cinema Screening: Rear Window

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Wednesday October 25

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7:00 PM  –  9:00 PM

Speed Cinema Presents: Rear Window

Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 pm

Speed Art Museum Cinema

 

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

“Of all Hitchcock’s films, this in the one which most reveals the man.” —Geoff Andrew, Time Out

Rear Window is an intriguing, brilliant, macabre visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. It was made entirely on one confined set built at Paramount Studios—a realistic courtyard composed of 32 apartments—providing the perfect vantage point for tenant L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart) to keep tabs on everyone through his “rear window.” Shot from the vantage point of Jeffries’ apartment, the viewer shares in his voyeuristic surveillance.

 

Jeffries, a magazine photographer who is confined to a wheelchair while recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment struggles to overcome his noncommittal feelings and reluctance to get married to his high-fashion model fiancée-girlfriend (the resplendent Grace Kelly). When Jeffries’ peeping may have witnessed murder, all hell breaks loose.

This film—one of Hitchcock's greatest thrillers, especially in its final twenty minutes, received four Academy Award nominations: Best Director, Best Screenplay (John Michael Hayes), Best Color Cinematography (Robert Burks), and Best Sound Recording. 1954, U.S., DCP, 112 minutes. Rated PG.

Don’t forget to bring your Speed Art Museum membership card to verify your membership.

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