Rear Window - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital [4K UHD]

What more can be said? Even rewatching it after many years, I can say it is truly a classic among classics—original, taut, unnerving.

So much has been said about this movie already, what's one more long description of the plot going to do? If you want to know the entire plot, read other reviews. I just want to give my thoughts on this movie.I find Rear Window (1954) to be entertaining, fun, suspenseful, and a little scary at times all rolled into one. The biggest reason why I like this movie is because Grace Kelly is in it. She was a looker and her performance in this movie was Oscar-worthy. She plays the role of Lisa Carol Fremont, who is the girlfriend of L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart. Stewart's performance was also great. Grace Kelly reminds me so much of Nicole Kidman, or should I say that Nicole Kidman reminds me of Grace Kelly. Kidman's overall look she had in The Others (2001) is so similar to Kelly's look in Rear Window, especially during the early part of Rear Window. Kidman's character name coincidentally in The Others is Grace Stewart.This movie takes place entirely in an apartment complex where the rear windows of all apartments are open and expose what is going on inside each apartment that overlooks a courtyard. It's funny to watch Jimmy Stewart's character take part in voyeurism. But his voyeurism pays off as he and several people are able to solve a murder that took place in an apartment across the courtyard. The suspense builds as the movie progresses.This DVD is in widescreen format. The extras are excellent. There is a documentary called Rear Window Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic, which describes the making of the movie with interviews with cast and crew, Hitchcock himself through an audio interview, and Hitchcock's daughter. It also shows how the movie was restored. Also included is a featurette with screenwriter John Michael Hayes. Other extras include production photographs, the theatrical trailer, a re-release trailer narrated by Jimmy Stewart, production notes, cast and filmmakers, and access to the original script.Overall, this is one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies. I highly recommend it.

I have watched this movie a million times and it’s never disappointing. Good old Jimmy Stewart😘

A guy stuck in his apartment with nowhere to go.What trouble could he get into?I watched this again the other night.Watch Stewart's eyes. His performance is virtually perfect.Grace Kelly looks fantastic and does very well as a spoiled rich girl trying to convince her would be lover that she has the right stuff to fit into his world.Strong supporting roles, an amazing set, and Kelly's wardrobe (that isn't too dated unlike many '50s film that turn attractive women into period stereotypes) make this a joy to watch.The Blue Ray features many extras and a fairly easy to navigate menu.

194us Rear window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112')Written by John Michael Hayes (with whom there is a delightful interview in the features of the dvd, and who won a 1955 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture), based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best.After breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, professional photographer L B "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart) is confined in his Greenwich Village apartment, using a wheelchair while he recuperates. His rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. They include a dancer ("Miss Torso", played by Georgine Darcy), a lonely woman ("Miss Lonelyheart"), a songwriter, several married couples, a middle-aged sculptor, and Lars Thorwald (Burr), a wholesale jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife.Jeff discusses his observations with his wealthy socialite girlfriend Lisa Fremont (Kelly) and his insurance company home-care nurse Stella (Ritter), and becomes obsessed with their theory that Thorwald murdered his wife. He explains their theory to his friend Tom Doyle (Corey), a New York City Police detective, who looks into the situation but finds nothing suspicious. A few days later, the heat has lifted. The lonely neighbor woman chats with the songwriter in his apartment, the dancer's lover returns home from the army, the couple whose dog was killed have a new dog, and the newly married couple are bickering.In the last scene of the film, Lisa reclines beside Jeff, appearing to read a book on foreign travel in order to please him, but as soon as he is asleep, she puts the book down and happily opens a fashion magazine. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and is considered one of Hitchcock's finest films.Time called it "just possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock" and a film in which there is "never an instant ... when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material." The same review did note "occasional studied lapses of taste and, more important, the eerie sense a Hitchcock audience has of reacting in a manner so carefully foreseen as to seem practically foreordained."François Truffaut in the Cahiers du cinéma in 1954 centers on the relationship between Jeff and the other side of the apartment block, seeing it as a symbolic relationship between spectator and screen. Film theorist Mary Ann Doane has made the argument that Jeff, representing the audience, becomes obsessed with the screen, where a collection of storylines are played out. This line of analysis has often followed a feminist approach to interpreting the film.In his book, Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window", John Belton addresses the underlying issues of voyeurism, scopophilia, patriarchy and feminism that are evident in the film. He quotes "Rear Window's story is "about" spectacle; it explores the fascination with looking and the attraction of that which is being looked at." Generally, Belton's book asserts that there is more to Hitchcock's thriller than what initially meets the eye. These issues that society faces today are all more than just present in the film, they are emphasized and strengthened.Hitchcock uses sound to convey the thematic elements behind Jeff's behavior and the audience's relationship to his subjective point of view. The music in Rear Window is entirely diegetic, and therefore every character in the courtyard hears the sound and acts based on what they hear. Hitchcock is less interested in reality than in how reality is perceived. Thus his use of entirely diegetic sound illustrates the idea that what we see as the audience is real.194us - Rear window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 112') -Rare view - 10/10/2012