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www.cinema-scene.com - : Rear Window is one of those films that makes it to the occasional top ten lists of all time. In my opinion, it is not Hitchcock's best film, but it does rank as one of his finest efforts, a fact that many would agree on. It is films like Rear Window that placed Hitchcock on the map of fame. Made a year before his television series began, Hitchcock was already a well liked director having made films that won Best Picture (Rebecca), as well as the occasional financial success (Notorious), but his last films, mostly dealing with more dramatic themes than the utter mortality of life, were financial and critical flops. Few would ever come to the defense of Under Capricorn or Stage Fright. Before Rear Window, he had a success with Dial M For Murder, but his place was not fully remade yet. more...
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www.movie-gurus.com - : For most of its duration, not a single shot in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rear Window'' takes place outside the small, lonely apartment of L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart). Every exterior pan originates through the eyes of the injured photographer, whose broken leg has him restrained to a wheelchair, living off of the meals of his caretaker, Stella (Thelma Ritter). more...
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www.chicagoreader.com - : When this romantic comedy-thriller was made, TV hadn’t yet posed a serious threat to radio, much less to movies, and there’s nary a TV set or TV screen in sight. The movie’s overall narrative form of scanning past windows in a courtyard seems to anticipate channel surfing, but it reflects the way one turns a radio knob, tuning in and out of frequencies while the station indicator moves horizontally or vertically along the dial. The same pattern is apparent in the beautifully calibrated camera movements as well as the brilliantly mixed and nuanced sound recording. more...
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