Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly might have just stumbled into the middle of a murder mystery in Hitchcock classic
REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
BAMcinématek, BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
July 13-18
Series runs July 13-26
212-415-5500
www.bam.org
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films is an unforgettable voyeuristic thriller starring James Stewart as temporarily wheelchair-bound photojournalist L. B. Jeffries and Grace Kelly as his society-girl friend (and extremely well dressed) Lisa Carol Fremont. Bored out of his mind, Jeffries grabs a pair of binoculars and starts spying on the apartments across the courtyard from him, each one its own television show, including a musical comedy, a lonely romance, an exercise program, and, most ominously, perhaps a murder mystery. Ever the reporter, Jeffries decides to go after the possible killer, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), and he’ll risk his life — and Lisa’s — to find out the truth. Sensational from start to finish, Rear Window works on so many levels, you’ll discover something new every time you watch it. Rear Window is screening July 13-18 at BAM Rose Cinemas, kicking off BAMcinématek’s “Grace Kelly: The Cool Blonde” series, honoring the career of the gorgeous, talented actress who made eleven films between 1951 and 1956 before being swept off her feet by Prince Rainier, starting a family, and building an international reputation that has continued even after she died in a car accident in 1982 at the age of fifty-two. The series also includes such other Kelly classics as High Society, High Noon, To Catch a Thief, and The Country Girl as well as her lesser-known debut, Fourteen Hours.