Rear Window Is Hitchcock’s Most Technically Impressive Film | CineFix Top 100
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- Bring your hot takes somewhere else, Rear Window is S-Tier Hitchcock. Made and released between other Grace Kelly classics Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief, Rear Window’s strength lies in Hitchcock’s ability to make us willing accomplices in Jimmy Stewart’s spying on his neighbors by leaning so hard on his POV and ratcheting up the tension of being stuck in one place. Clint, Cal and Alex dive into how such a simple set up becomes so complicated to shoot, the technical precision it takes to shoot everything from one vantage point on a giant set, and why Jeff absolutely sucks without ruining the movie. Will it end up being the highest Hitchcock film on the list?
Meanwhile, Dan’s algorithm is watching from the shadows, smoking a cigarette… and waiting.
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One of my all-time favourite retorts
Jeff: Are you interested in solving this case or in making me look foolish?
Tom: Well, if possible, both.
One of my all time favorites. Never, not a single time, have I been bored watching it
This might not be a horror movie, but the moment Thorvald looks into the lens is one of the most intense moments in cinema. I watched this movie for the first time on my laptop in college, with headphones, and when he looked at the camera, I legit shoved the computer off my lap and had to walk around the room for a second before coming back.
great use of breaking the rule of not looking straight into the camera
Omg I love the discussion of Jeff’s character. He is the worst. I thought I was the only one who felt that way
funny, i rewatched this and vertigo close to each other last year and one of my big takeaways was that i started to wonder if i didn't like Jimmy Stewart as an actor so much anymore, but now I'm wondering if it's just that he was doing a good job playing characters that have dislikeable traits...
Do other people think he is a NOT bad person? He's spying on people, rude and worst of all he turns down Grace Kelly who is literally perfect in this film
VERY good look for Cal! I'm always a huge fan of Clint's but, Cal cleans up real nice!
If I had to introduce an alien to only one Hitchcock movie, this would be it.
Love the "Let's drag L.B. Jeffries" energy of this entire discussion. 😆
Rear Window is the highest Hitchcock on my list at #18, one of two Hitchcock films in my top 100
Only two?!
I have it down at #80 with North by Northwest and Psycho both ranked above it. And it still doesn't feel like enough Hitchcock...
Are yall doing lists along with them? That sounds fun
@@carmawarlock8455 I couldn't resist once I'd listened to a few of these videos
vertigo is hitchcock's best. it is a surreal anomaly.
North by Northwest but Hitchcock has so many classics.
for me too. i still remember that dream sequence and how i got chills when i saw the woman between them beside the windowsill. jesus christ...
"Drinking brandy while playing Risk" 😂 Great video as always 👍
New drinking game idea. Take a shot every time "to your point" is said
Hitchcock Tiers (Max 3) All of these movies are fantastically written and directed, deeply thematic, and worthy of discussion and study. Also more of his movies that are not these nine are worthy of viewing, but these are the tops. Finally, don't confuse ranking tiers against the ability for it to be someone's personal favorite. No surprise that more people would view Rear Window, North by Northwest and others that have a similar tone, but that is not what makes a director's best movies their actual best.
Hitchcock S Tier: Vertigo, Notorious, Psycho
Hitchcock 1st Tier: Rear Window, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt
Hitchcock 2nd Tier: Strangers on a Train, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Birds
Hitchcock 3rd Tier: Dial M for Murder, Rope, The Lodger
For as much as rear window is a fantastic movie, one should not belittle on the waterfront which is a masterpiece and one of the most important movies for acting in US movie history.
Have you considered that Jeff as a war photographer who has seen and maybe experienced unspeakable horrors, abhors violence to the point that it triggers PTSD, and that's why he squirms helplessly at the sight of Thorwald abusing his girlfriend?
I saw "Rear Window" for the first time in a sizable film class on projector so it felt like a tiny theater. But the audience reactions watching these Hitchcock films were so great.
When Perry Mason looked at Jeffries (us) across the way for the first time, we held our breaths.
I didn't find the "swirling brandy" scene funny before, but I sure do now.
One of my favourite movies. My mother introduced me to this movie as well as many other great 30s-60s movies. This movie in particular, is just on a whole other level.
Ah....any conversation about this masterpiece is a treat!😍
Within a minute of the start, and a month late, I am SO excited for this one :)
Yay one of my favorites- definitely favorite Hitchcock film. So impressive and well done and entertaining.
One of my favorite all-time films & definitely #1 on my Hitchcock list!!!
Fright Night (1985) was a cross between Rear Window and Dracula.
I have a question about your thumbnail text design. What is the name of the font used to create the lettering for the thumbnail text? Thanks in advance!
Rear Window is a Hitchcock movie I've grown to appreciate more and more as time goes on. I first saw it when I was like 10 and clocked in what happened with the wife as soon as the trunk showed up, which I guess says a lot about me... It's become my favorite Hitchcock (with the other two being Lifeboat and Marnie for some reason) because of how much they stick to the "gimmick" of the movie and so much of the movie has stuck with me. Now, I live in an apartment where I can actually see windows to the other brick-walled apartment so it's a constant reminder of Rear Window (hopefully I see no murders).
I much prefer Rear Window to Vertigo. It is one of my favourite Hitchcocks along with the 39 Steps, Strangers on a Train and North By Northwest.
Rear window is definitely my favorite Hitchcock movie.
i recently rewatched both Vertigo and Rear Window in a theater in the last year, and I really liked Rear Window a lot this time around. i remember liking it before, but it blew me away so hard with this watch. i fell for grace Kelley pretty hard again too =P and the end confrontation hit harder to in an unexpected way. I think there was def part of me when i first saw it that saw him fighting with the flashbulbs as creative and novel, but i didn't completely buy the effectiveness. watching in a dark theater, i had to start shielding my eyes because it was totally working on me.
Great video, but please don't give up on lists
I'm the same
1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. Rear window
This usually toggles as my favorite Hitchcock movie with Dial M for Murder. So many great lines in it. His wonderful nurse who steals many scenes (can't think of her name).
I do need to say (though I am sure it's been said by now) that if you are a Grace Kelly fan, go watch Country Girl. It's a bit melodramatic but she plays against type in it, (ie "country girl") instead of her stereotypical blue-blooded socialite part.
I have at least 5 Hitchcok films in my top 100, very possibly 6. But that said, I have never actually made a definite top 100, I just know I have rated 5 of his films 10/10 and also: he is my favourite director. His style very much speaks to me personally. I do know that "Rear Window" ranks at number 2 or 1. It's main rival is Sunset Blvd.
9:09 Country Girl is the film with Grace Kelly's Oscar winning performance. I personally loved it, but it's not near my top 100. Grace made 6 films in '54 that crazy woman.
I liked Rear Window (just re-watched it last night) but I prefer North by Northwest over it. Guess I'm alone in this thinking based on the commentary. I just think NBNW is a superior movie.
The Country Girl is Grace Kelly too
Is it just me, or the episode don't come out on spotify anymore ?
This is a good movie. It's even very good.
But Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, Psycho, hell even Birds depending on the day are all valid contenders.
And Strangers on a Train an The Man Who Knew Too Much
and Notorious
Great video! Here's my impression of Calibro, "Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like..." What are you, a valley girl?
I think a lot of Jeff’s flaws and strange reactions suddenly make a LOT of sense when you imagine this man in a war zone hiding in the dark taking pictures of combat. This man has probably seen people die through his viewfinder more than a few times and simply had to stay put and watch. Watching this movie imagining him in that light, I took some very different things from his character.
I would have imagined the period leading up to the marriage between Han Solo and Leia Organa would have resembled the relationship between L.B. Jefferies and Lisa Fremont.
My favorite Hitchcock will probably always be North by Northwest. Rear Window would probably be number 2 though. It really always comes down to those big five films of his. Vertigo, NbNW, Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window.
Are you going to put new episodes on spotify again? Last one still isnt available, this one as well
Sames goes for Apple!
Monty Python from last week has just gone up, looks like UA-cam is going to start getting early access I guess, strange there was no announcement
And the newest episode is up as well, thanks!
@@agwooding1 no early access! There was a hiccup publishing to the feed! Thanks for flagging here!
List idea: Best films take place in one location/set/place.
I kinda feel like Jeff being a jerk serves an important meta function: it makes the viewer want to put himself in Jeff's place, because the viewer is aware that Jeff is the kind of guy capable of attracting the attention of Grace Kelly -- and he's a guy who lives a life of adventure. He may be stuck in this apartment now, but he's not a homebody. I think Hitchcock's goal is to make the viewer (presumed male of course) slap their forehead in shock at Jeff's stupidity while deeply wanting to BE Jeff. Which is also relevant for how we feel when we become the voyeur.
Best Hollywood Kiss ever, Grace Kelly leaning in on Jimmy Stewart. It set the standard to kissing for me.
imho, it's better than Vertigo. i would put it ahead of everything other than Shadow of a doubt.
Great Hitchcock films (as opposed to merely Good) are somewhere within the actual framework of telling the tale has required him to approach it as a technical puzzle that only he can solve correctly. He also knew his audience; his flock came to his films and he knew what they wanted. That gave him the option to be creative in a way that stopped being commonplace in the thirties. (Referring to the Soviets and the French in particular.) He was a bastard that damaged Tippi Hedren... like Kubrick did Duvall... and left us with brilliant, top tier horror.
Has it been settled already, but what's going on with the Vertigo episode? I feel like I might have missed something.
Rear Window was remade in 1998 with Christopher Reeve.
Is there an online excel type list somewhere with all the movies so far (and not only the 100)?
The description includes the Top 100 so far and I think a few people have been keeping track in an excel sheet!
Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window. Best ones. Even Rope and Birds I like better than psycho.
Thats my favorite of Hitchcock movies (TBH the only one I truly enjoyed) and also one of my all time favorite movies ever.
Just think. If Jeff had owned a TV, Thorvald would have gotten away with it.
Robert Burks was so damn good. Worked on 12 of Hitchcock's films. Tragically killed with his wife in a house fire.
And above Miss Torso's apartment are The Birds
For a second i thought how high was in the top 100
The apartment complex is Rear Window never feels like a real place, it always feel like a set.
The one thing I always thought was odd in this movie is all the neighbors never covered their windows with curtains or blinds. Peopel living that close would never do that.
You'd be surprised. Plus it was hot with no AC so the windows had to be open.
I know it was hot but even so....@@StinkyCheeseYodeler
Repo Man next week
Ah yhe ign mikes.. classic
For me, it's Psycho, then Notorious, then Rear Window.
To your point
11:57 ayyyyy haha
Hitchcock, in the latter two-thirds of his career, was never able to live up to his themes. His movies are great to talk about because of them. However, when we comes down to it, what is presented is fairly mundane.
Wow, you guys are wrong about Jeff.
I happen to like Rebecca and Rope more than this one. But it’s up there.
And I still want to know who was that woman who left Thorwalds apartment and who picked up Mrs.Thorwalds luggage at the train station ? I would not call Jeff a peeping Tom. And there was no voyurism...that its watching people have sex.
I think you are over simplifying Jeff and his reasoning. I think he is pragmatic, or at least in his mind. Imagine a couple who do genuinely love each other but the man also loves football and sports. She loves opera and live theatre. He would want to spend every weekend at a sporting event and she would want to spend every weekend at the theatre. Both want to share in what they love, their passions, with their loved one. But she fucking hates football and he fucking hates theatre. So, she drags him to the theatre and he starts to resents her for making him go to this thing that he hates, and vice-versa. Or, they each do their own thing, and end up never spending any time together. And it would be unfair for one to try and force the other to change who they are and what they are passionate about.
Image any of you dating someone who doesn’t like movies. They just won’t watch a movie in the theater or at home. Movies just bore them, even if it is Hitchcock.
When she walks in with a waiter and the lobster, she seems like she is used to or wants the “finer” things in life, a high maintenance life style. And yes, he could make a good living being a fashion photographer, but he seems like he would rather put a gun in his mouth than spend the rest of his life taking pictures of dresses. And it would be cruel and unfair of him to ask her to change who she is. Sometimes, being in love is not enough to make a relationship work. In his mind, it would be worse, crueler, to string her along if it is not going to go anywhere.
At 1:05, I think y'all are missing the point. The man is in a wheelchair and has been a voyeur, and his girl is being attacked, and he CAN'T do anything. There's a vibe throughout the movie that's not just voyeurism-it's imprisonment. Would marriage be a prison to Jeff? More than that, we are not just voyeurs with Jeff, we are trapped in there with him and WE cannot help Lisa either. It makes us feel incompetent, and for us male viewers, it makes us feel emasculated-we can't protect our woman.
The Burbs??? What hell is going on here? I keep wondering if you'll ever do a video on one of those weird art films that go unwatched outside of film class but are critical darlings -- Kiarostami or Tarkovsky or Kieslowski, for instance. Instead you're doing The Burbs.
Edit: I just realized you're doing movies like this to piss off people like me and increase engagement. It worked!
I've never even heard of The Burbs, I was so confused at the end of this video I actually checked to see if next week's episode falls on April 1st, I thought they'd made up a film to mess with us 😅
@agwooding1 I actually watched it yesterday to see if I was missing something. It's not good, mostly because the script is very dumb. Not funny at all. Nice Joe Dante style, but overall very mid.
Do we really dislike Dan or is this a bit?
Can it be both?
I personally hated Vertigo. 👎
❤ Love love love Psycho, Dial M for Murder, and Rear Window.
WITHOUT A DOUBT!
I don't believe everything Tippi Hedten said
Psycho is not a horror movie.
Jimmy in Vertigo is much worse.
I love this movie but the rambling is getting monotonous.
I mean it's good, great even, but that final ranking is WILD. Nowhere close to being the best Hitchcock. This series is definitely a hatewatch for me 😂😂
so, you make I video for say that you hate a real man like Stewart
Why are these videos so long? I lose interest after 5 minutes
Blah, blah, blah... boring.
this Was the 1950s.... they couldn't spell it out but..... JEFF WAS GAY
hehe