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  Rear Window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" (1942).
There has been avid discussion among scholars of film about Rear Window and the way it examines the relationship between the characters played by Stewart and Kelly: most notably, how their relationship can be compared to the lives of the neighbors they are spying upon.
Rear Window was re-made as a TV movie in 1998, starring Christopher Reeve.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rear_Window   (667 words)

  
 Rear Window - Kaedrin Movies
Rear Window is considered by many to be a masterpiece that is perfectly constructed to manipulate the narrative and the viewer's experience of it.
In Rear Window, this voyeuristic framing technique is taken to a literal level in an attempt to expand the emotional involvement of the viewer.
Rear Window is a brilliantly crafted film that has fully realized its potential to explore the complicated relationship between the watcher and the watched.
www.kaedrin.com /fun/movies/rear.html   (2573 words)

  
 CNN - Film restoration more than 'Rear Window'-dressing - Dec. 11, 1997
Compounding "Rear Window's" problem is an additional reel of negative that had its yellow layer stripped off the emulsion when a lacquer that was applied and reapplied over the years to cover scratches was eventually removed.
To bring "Rear Window's" colorful brilliance back to life, an interpositive, an extremely fine-grain, low-contrast color- duplicating element, will be made from what survives on the original negative and combined with what survives on the yellow separation master.
While "Rear Window" lacks the stunning visual reputation of "Vertigo," its technical virtuosity is legendary, boasting Hitchcock's most elaborate set to re-create the Greenwich Village apartment complex where Stewart spies on his neighbors with his telephoto lens.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9712/11/rearwindow.restoration.lat   (1260 words)

  
 DVD Review - Rear Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To put it bluntly, Hitchcock is generally considered a genius for a reason and "Rear Window" is the prime example of his ingenuity.
To save "Rear Window" from complete obliteration, restoration experts Robert Harris and James Katz took it upon themselves in 1998 to search the world for all available elements of the film in order to piece together a perfect version of the movie and create a new negative from these elements.
"Rear Window" is a timeless masterpiece by one of the world’s greatest directors.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/rear_window.shtml   (1213 words)

  
 NCAM/Motion Picture Access
The Rear Window Captioning System displays reversed captions on a light-emitting diode (LED) text display which is mounted in the rear of a theater.
The Rear Window concept will still be viable and practical: the data will be sent to a datawall which displays the captions in reverse on the rear wall of the theater and a reflector at the seat of the deaf or hard-of-hearing moviegoer will reflect those captions.
Rear Window and DVS Theatrical are based on very flexible data formats which can be adjusted to change with whatever new display and audio reception technologies emerge.
ncam.wgbh.org /mopix/faq.html   (2910 words)

  
 Rear Window Captioning System - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The Rear Window Captioning System is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf, hard-of-hearing, or hearing impaired people.
Rear Window captioning is an alternative to open captioning, in which text is permanently visible on the movie print.
Rear Window captioning is a form of closed captioning because the viewer must choose to view the captions.
www.music.us /education/R/Rear-Window-Captioning-System.htm   (604 words)

  
 Rear Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Rear Window, Hitchcock limits himself to two settings: the apartment of L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart), a news photographer stewing with his leg in a cast after an accident; and his apartment complex -- mainly the three sides visible from Jeff's courtyard window.
The story of Rear Window is so enclosed, so interior, and our immersion in Jeff's psycho-optical conditions so complete, that one imagines that the film would be just as fascinating if it were exhibited in the form of fl-and-white storyboards.
But the Rear Window image connotes not a dream plenitude of incredible satisfactions, but the gnawing doubt of someone forced to look at himself.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/02/17/rear_window.html   (801 words)

  
 Salon Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But while "Rear Window" -- which opens at New York's Film Forum in a newly restored version and makes its way around the country in the next few months -- is surely one of Alfred Hitchcock's best entertainments, there's no getting around that it's also an intensely discomforting experience.
In "Rear Window" Hitchcock presents a hero who is in the same position the director put his audiences in: a watcher who sees (or thinks he sees) what he is powerless to stop.
But while "Rear Window" -- which opens at New York's Film Forum in a newly restored version and makes its way around the country in the next few months -- is surely one of Alfred Hitchcock's best entertainments, there's no getting around that it's also an intensely discomforting experience.
dir.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/01/21/rear_window   (2200 words)

  
 Rear Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rear Window was adapted from a story in Dime Detective Magazine called "It Had To Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich, writing as William English.
In the pale frothy negligee of Rear Window, she positively giggled at her image in the mirrors.
Rear Window is both a murder mystery and a reflection of post-war sexual anxieties.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDRearWindow.htm   (908 words)

  
 Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window (1954) is an intriguing, brilliant, macabre Hitchcockian visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism.
It is 94 degrees on the thermometer - during a heat wave.
Incapacitated and bored, he spends his time staring out the window watching (prying on) his neighbors through the windows of the apartments on the opposite side of the complex's courtyard.
www.filmsite.org /rear.html   (2974 words)

  
 Rear Window Graphics
Operating out of southern Florida, Window Canvas has quickly become a leader in the design and manufacture of graphics for the side and rear window of cars, trucks, suvs, and vans.
All of Window Canvas' graphics are offered in 3 stock sizes geared to fit the rear glass of any car, truck, or SUV on the planet.
They were one of the first companies to use high resolution photographs for their rear window graphics resulting in some of the most stunning graphics available anywhere.
www.rjwmotorsports.com /site/rear_window_graphics.html   (241 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Rear Window [1954]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rear Window is one of the best examples ever of a filmmaker forcing his audience to experience the movie's events through the hero's eyes.
Rear Window is the king of kings in suspense with a little romance and humour thrown in.
Rear Window was the second of four collaberations between Alfred Hitchcock and james Stewart and in my opnion is the best.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005IBB3   (1981 words)

  
 Rear Window
For Rear Window he invented the down-to-earth character Stella, and as early as possible had her speak several comic lines.
Wells’s ‘Through a Window’ begins: ‘After his legs were set, they carried Bayley into the study and put him on a couch before the open window.’ The story patently influenced Woolrich’s 'Rear Window', and ends in similar fashion with an outsider invading the apartment to attack the hero.
In Rear Window, reality is represented minimally by the courtyard, where a few people potter about, or sun themselves, but generally stay indoors, dreaming and fantasising.
www.labyrinth.net.au /~muffin/rear_window_c.html   (6095 words)

  
 `Rear Window,' `Saint Maybe' two good ones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rear Window was that sexy thriller with James Stewart and Grace Kelly (not yet the storybook princess of Monaco).
The suspenseful moment of this Rear Window, in fact, comes long before its star is stalked by a murderer.
The people in the apartments with their rear windows facing Jason's loft are Jason's noctural entertainment.
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/chronicle/ae/tv/cover/1121reeve.html   (842 words)

  
 Rear window defogger - '93 - '96 - Automotive Forums .com Car Chat- A Message Board for Every Make and Model
The "wire" on the window seems to be intact.
There was voltage at the connector coming into the rear window defogger, and voltage throughout the foil wires on the window.
The problem was a poor connection between the window connector and the ground wire.
www.automotiveforums.com /t368573-rear_window_defogger.html   (140 words)

  
 Wide Angle Fresnel Lens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A clear wide-angle rear window fresnel lens is a thin flexible negative fresnel lens which adheres instantly with water to the rear window of your vehicle to provides driver a increased angle of full view.
The lens enable you to actually see many objects under the rear window you can't not see through inside and outside rear view mirrors.
Use the rear window fresnel lens, you can avoid accidents due to the children, pets and other low-lying objects in blind spot behind your vehicle while backing up.
www.3dlens.com /Wide_Angle_Fresnel_Lens.html   (278 words)

  
 REAR WINDOW movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
After 17 years, Rear Window is returning to theaters, looking better than ever in a print restored by archivists Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz.
Compared to other projects, Rear Window's restoration is less of a spectacle: No fabled lost segments were discovered, no drastic errors were fixed, no splashy colors explode from the screen.
And now that the windows are sparkling clean, the view is better than ever.
www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/r/rearwi.html   (633 words)

  
 Recuperation and Rear Window
It is the recollection of this illness and the “calm but inquisitive” state of mind as he recovers that make him sit in the window of a Coffee-House and stare with wonder at the “tumultuous sea of human heads” passing by on the other side of the “large bow-window”.
Rear Window’s is in some ways a distinctly post-Haussmannian universe, one that assumes, and is grounded in, the changes Haussmann effected in urban life by way of opening up the closed environment and the fixed living style to circulation and mobility.
As Rear Window was Hitchcock’s first production in a wide-screen format, its aspect ratio “approximated the shape of the windows surrounding Jefferies’s apartment” (DeRosa, 45), hence the implication in the film (often critically admired) that Jeff is like a moviegoer absorbed in a number of tiny “films”.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/29/rear_window.html   (6354 words)

  
 Top 100 Movie Lists - Rear Window
When it was released in 1954, Rear Window prompted a critic to complain that James Stewart's character was nothing but a peeping Tom.
Rear Window was filmed on one enormous soundstage at Paramount, which at the time was the biggest set they had ever built.
Rear Window is an entertaining and suspenseful masterpiece, a film of style and substance, and easily one of the best films ever made.
www.geocities.com /aaronbcaldwell/Rear.html   (502 words)

  
 The DVD Journal: Rear Window: Collector's Edition
No, the reason that Rear Window is arguably Hitchcock's most beloved film is because it is one of the last gasps of prestige Hollywood cinema, one of the last of the great studio films before the full impact of television, the Consent Decree, new technology, and other factors were fully visited on the industry.
Rear Window is one of the most eagerly anticipated of Hitchcock's films to appear on DVD.
Universal's DVD transfer of the recently released Rear Window restoration is beautiful, if still inevitably flawed, as explained by James C. Katz, restoration producer for Universal, and the very busy restoration artist Robert Harris in one of the accompanying documentaries.
www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/r/rearwindow.shtml   (2131 words)

  
 Chicago Reader Movie Review
The movie’s overall narrative form of scanning past windows in a courtyard seems to anticipate channel surfing, but it reflects the way one turns a radio knob, tuning in and out of frequencies while the station indicator moves horizontally or vertically along the dial.
Rear Window, with considerably more money at its disposal, had a $100,000 set built—38 feet wide, 185 feet long, and 40 feet high—combining Jeff’s living room, the only part of his flat we ever see, with the courtyard it overlooks.
In an impressive oeuvre, Rear Window is arguably the most exquisitely handcrafted feature, because Hitchcock mastered the spatial as well as behavioral coordinates of his chosen universe inch by inch.
www.chireader.com /movies/archives/2000/0200/000225.html   (2039 words)

  
 Review: Rear Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Supervised by the same team that resurrected Vertigo, this revived version of Rear Window is a positive triumph, restoring the film to the way it looked nearly fifty years ago and adding the bonus of digital sound.
However, with his mobility restricted, Jefferies can only watch through his rear window as Lisa puts herself in harm's way, and, when danger strikes, he is helpless to go to her rescue.
Few who have seen Rear Window do not consider it to be a top-notch thriller, and, even those who call another of Hichcock's masterpieces (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho) his greatest, acknowledge the power and tension inherent in this one.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/rear_window.html   (1396 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The hero of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" is trapped in a wheelchair, and we're trapped, too--trapped inside his point of view, inside his lack of freedom and his limited options.
Jeff's apartment window shares a courtyard with many other windows (all built on a single set by Hitchcock), and as the days pass he becomes familiar with some of the other tenants.
In "Rear Window," he is in love with the occupation of photography, and becomes completely absorbed in reconstructing the images he has seen through his lens.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20000220/REVIEWS08/2200301/1023   (1149 words)

  
 TruckXpressions Auto Rear Window and Truck Tailgate Graphics
Window Canvas™ designs and manufactures a wide array of see-thru graphic images for the exterior of any glass surface such as the rear window of an automobile.
Window Canvas™ is committed to leading this industry and aggressively promoting it through patent-pending business models such as the GlassPass™ virtual inventory program for dealers and the Window Canvas™ Construction Kit web-based software to build your own Window Canvas™.
Window Canvas™ is a privately held company backed by highly experienced management that brings a vast array of experience and capital resources to the company.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Rear Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" develops such a clean, uncluttered line from beginning to end that we're drawn through it (and into it) effortlessly.
As his hero, Jimmy Stewart, idly picks up a camera with a telephoto lens and begins to scan the open windows on the other side of the courtyard, we look too.
"Rear Window" (1954) is the first of the current package of Hitchcock re-releases.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19831007/REVIEWS/310070302/1023   (602 words)

  
 Information services for intercity and transit buses.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The main rear axle was placed behind the tag to increase the space for underfloor luggage; this change had the disadvantage of slightly increasing the turn radius.
Eagles of 1981 and later are identified by the taller driver’s window and passenger entrance door, the tops of which match the top of the windshield.
The side windows are larger than on the Model 10 and the first right-hand and left-hand windows from the front were made square for interchangeability.
www.coachinfo.com /AllAboutBuses/Eagle_Info.html   (1607 words)

  
 BMW E36 Convertible Rear Window: $129
This is a new BMW window built by me from all new components.
An E36 window is a zip-in window with fl rubber trim on the outside that you tuck your top into.
The old window unzips and the new window zips in.
www.emiata.com /E36Window.asp   (289 words)

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