Which thrillers are considered to be
the “best of all time” (1)?
Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
Had Rear Window been made by a director like Truffaut, it would have
ended up being a meditation on voyeurism, the role of the cinema and that of
the auteur behind it, and the participation of the audience in the
relationship. As it was made by Hitchcock, it is all these things, but also a
gripping and exciting thriller revolving around wheelchair-bound photographer
LB Jeffries (James Stewart) and his suspicions that his neighbour Lars Thorwald
(Raymond Burr) has murdered his wife. Hitchcock moves from light social comedy
to edge-of-seat suspense with alacrity, and is helped by a positively luminous
Grace Kelly as Stewart's girlfriend.
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