September 2011
“REAR WINDOW goes beyond pessimism; it is really a cruel film. Stewart fixes his glasses on his neighbors only to catch them in moments of failure, in ridiculous postures, when they appear grotesque or even hateful… To clarity REAR WINDOW, I’d suggest this parable: The courtyard is the world, the reporter / photographer is the filmmaker, the binoculars stand for the camera and its lenses. And Hitchcock? He is the man we love to be hated by.”
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Francois Truffaut in his 1954 essay on REAR WINDOW.
10 years later, Truffaut would sit down with Hitchcock and discuss the latter’s films at length, a series of interviews that would eventually be compiled into one of the most invaluable film texts around.
(via criterioncorner)
