Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Benny Bartlett, Frank Cady, Raymond Burr, Ross Bagdasarian, Sara Berner
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

Movie Review: Heads up! New 2-disc Special Edition due out October 9th, 2008!
Summary: 5 Stars

A homebound man with a broken leg watches his neighbors and what may be evidence of murder out his apartment's rear window. Considered by many Hitchcock's best film, with a suspense-filled plot, wryly humorous script, and audience favorites James Stewart and Grace Kelly, I think most movie fans, and especially fans of this movie, will find the upcoming DVD set worth the wait.

The new edition will include a new audio commentary, a new featurette on Hitchcock's cinematography, and a new collection of interview excerpts from Hitchcock and Fran?ois Truffaut, in addition to the main special features from the 2001 Collector's Edition.

The Amazon page to pre-order is here. (I've included more details and a fuller review of the movie there.)

Summary of Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder.

Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse (Thelma Ritter). Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) disappears, Jeff enlists the two women to help him to determine whether she's really left town, as Thorwald insists, or been murdered.

Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto convincingly argues that the crime at the center of this mystery is the MacGuffin--a mere pretext--in a film that's more interested in the implications of Jeff's sentinel perspective. We actually learn more about the lives of the other neighbors (given generic names by Jeff, even as he's drawn into their lives) he, and we, watch undetected than we do the putative murderer and his victim. Jeff's evident fear of intimacy and commitment with the elegant, adoring Lisa provides the other vital thread to the script, one woven not only into the couple's own relationship, but reflected and even commented upon through the various neighbors' lives.

At minimum, Hitchcock's skill at making us accomplices to Jeff's spying, coupled with an ingenious escalation of suspense as the teasingly vague evidence coalesces into ominous proof, deliver a superb thriller spiked with droll humor, right up to its nail-biting, nightmarish climax. At deeper levels, however, Rear Window plumbs issues of moral responsibility and emotional honesty, while offering further proof (were any needed) of the director's brilliance as a visual storyteller. --Sam Sutherland

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