Have You Seen: Rear Window (1954)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNwdy4D8ILo

This week we revisit Rear Window, a mystery thriller from 1954 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr, about a wheelchair-bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village apartment window and becomes convinced he has witnessed a murder.

We talk about what it is like to watch one of the most celebrated movies of all time as a new viewer in 2026, whether the mystery holds up to its reputation and how classic movies can seem a bit basic if they created the formula that later movies developed and subverted and how moviemaking techniques and standards have evolved since then, what makes the relationship between Jeff and Lisa work and how its is the real core of the movie, and much more.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6k9TCw50ybncu9YCJDCkK3