Rear Window (1954)

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago at Nov 29 9:29

"When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway." Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, James Stuart Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller Running time: 112 minutes My review: A wheelchair bound photographer thinks he witnesses a murder from his apartment window. Gradually he fleshes out the crime, drawing others into his intrigue until the film culminates in a perfect hero / villain showdown. Rear Window is in my opinion one of the best thrillers ever made. Every single scene of this film made me feel really tense and made my heart pound so fast, it hurt. It took my breath away and couldnt let me breath very much because it was so tense. One of the things that I lov...Read more

Posted : 8 months ago at Nov 2 12:50

This is Alfred Hitchcock's best movie he ever made. I was scared when I first saw it. There is this creepy and supensful feeling to it. Great movie.

full rating: 9.7/10

Posted : 11 months, 1 week ago at Jul 31 3:40

"We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?" Rear Window is an undemanding lesson in accomplishing perfection from simplicity. This classic film was the creation of Alfred Hitchcock during one of his last grand creative spells. In the years to follow, the all-time master of suspense produced such classics as Vertigo and Psycho. Rear Window is Hitchcock's supreme cinematic creation, his crowning triumph and the feather in his cap. With this particular production, the director influenced thrillers and their formulas still decades following its release. Rear Window is a film that invents the clichés. Preceding Hitchcock's masterpiece, said clichés didn't exis...Read more

Posted : 1 year ago at Jun 30 16:21

Hitchcock's meditation on film, society's voyeuristic tendencies, and the relationship between spectator and screen. James Stewart, frequent Hitchcock collaborator, passively spies on his neighbors, assigns them nicknames, storylines, and is bored with life behind the "screen." He has a beautiful model girlfriend (Grace Kelly, who else really?) that he pays little attention to, until very late in the film when she "breaks the fourth wall" as it were, and moves from his apartment to the "screen." I also found it to be kitschy and slightly perverse that Stewart's neighbors all have rectangular movie screen shaped windows for him to spy in on. In essence, we are Stewart, and he is us. Thelma Ritter adds her classic patent of crusty sarcastic support to the proceedings. The final confrontation...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jan 23 15:45

How many Masterpieces can one artist concieve in a lifetime? One? Two? Three if much? To most that's about it. But in one time or another, comes one that can turn everything he touches into gold. Shakespeare was like that, Da Vinci was like that, Chaplin was like that, just to name a few. Another person that had this gift was Alfred Hitchcock. He's the kind of movie maker that knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted. He could turn a story about birds who attack people without any reason in a great thriller, and he did the same with the story of a man in a wheelchair, who can't walk or leave his room. Rear Window is the story of L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) a photographer who broke his leg in an automobile accident and now has to stay never ending weeks inside his appart...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jan 19 16:11

Rear View Window is about a world-class photographer who was injured in the line of duty and bound to a wheelchair and a cast on his leg. So, for entertainment of being stuck indoor, he begun to be an observer of his neighbours' daily activities through his window. In one of the occasion, he believed that one of his neighbour had murdered his wife and so began to do a stake-out on the guy and his movements for proof that the murder was real. This movie has joined my list of all time favourite movies because of the suspense I felt throughout the movie and the way the plot is arranged is so interesting. You know there are some movies where you can predict what is going to happen in the end. Well, in this movie, you know what will happen but you are not confident if it will really happen t...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago at Jul 21 11:20

It is amazing how Hitchcock was able to create movies that are timeless...this movie was brilliant.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago at Jan 10 7:10

Just saw this recently: it's slow paced but thats the beauty of it. Since the main character is wheelchair-bound and has nothing to do all day but to stare at his neighbors lives, the viewer also becomes a peepin' tom, and since you can't hear what any of the neighbors are saying, this movie just draws you right in and forces you to participate by trying to imagine whats going on in all their lives. And when one man's wife goes missing and the husband looks suspicious, the viewer is fully engrossed along with the main character trying to figure out if he killed or if she just moved out of town. The dialogue is snappy and the chemistry between Jimmy and Grace is adorable, with many of their scenes almost making this feel more like a romantic film rather than a murder-mystery. Only dra...Read more

Rating : 9/10