Rear Window

The biggest box-office hit in Hitchcock’s career, based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich. Jeff (James Stewart), a photographer confined to a wheelchair, is killing time during his convalescence, spying on his neighbours in the heat of New York’s Greenwich Village. Constantly quarrelling with his mischievous nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his beautiful partner Lisa (Grace Kelly), who’s insisting on more stability, Jeff begins an amateur investigation, when he starts to suspect that the man from the apartment opposite killed his wife. A brilliantly constructed script, the best thriller of all time and at the same time an excellent satire on our obsession with looking, which constitutes the very foundation of the art of cinema. A special screening on the 70^th anniversary of the film’s premiere.

Michał Oleszczyk, SpoilerMaster Podcast

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was a British director who from 1940 onwards mainly made films in the United States. He quickly gained fame as the “master of suspense” but serious critical attention wasn’t paid to his films until the mid-’50s, initially in France. His best-known films include The 39 Steps (1935), Notorious (1946) and Vertigo (1958), which was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll.