Overview
Rear Window (1954)Summer Classics
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, a commentary on vicariousness and self-reflexively filmgoing, returns to the Browning Cinema. Laid up with a broken leg, professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart) combats the cabin fever swelling about his midcentury New York apartment with some binoculars and voyeurism. Looking out his rear window to a shared courtyard, he becomes enthralled with the lives he follows, bringing in his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) into the peeping. When they suspect a potential murder (it is, after all, a Hitchcock movie) and the couple decides to crack the case, the once-giant gulf between the apartment and the courtyard quickly collapses as tension builds.
Free for Notre Dame Students.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema. Co-presented by La Casa de Amistad.