Wednesday | March 6, 2002 7:00 pm

Rear Window

Screening on Film

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter.
US , 1954, 35mm, color, 112 min.

An intriguing study of obsession, Rear Window tells the story of L. B. “Jeff” Jefferies (Stewart), a temporarily wheelchair-bound photographer who uses his convalescent time to spy on the tenants of other apartments on his block through his own “rear window.” Amid a growing suspicion that one of his neighbors has committed murder, he enlists his girlfriend (Kelly) and maid (Ritter) to gather evidence, with near-tragic results. Hitchcock’s use of camera angles, shot predominantly from Jefferies’s apartment window, draws viewers into the tantalizing world of voyeurism.