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Rear Window (runtime 1:52:26) - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2026-04-26 16:00:22
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Hi Everyone!I mentioned it on the scheduled, but in case you missed it we messed up the audio :( Chandra's mic died as soon as we started recording and we missed it. We were able to boost the audio off of my mic but the quality turned out a little rough, so sorry for that! We're also not doing a YouTube edit, and keeping it Patreon only.It's extra sad because we loved this movie! It kept both of us on the edge of our seat, and guessing right til the end. The cast was wonderful, and the setting was so fun and creative. If you don't mind the rough sound, I hope you'll join us for Rear Window!

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Rear Window (runtime 1:52:26) - Patreon Version

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OddThomas

After this To Catch a Thief, The Birds, Vertigo, Psycho & Marnie are my fave Hitchcocks

spacious_recroom

I just randomly watched a few sections at different points in the video and Chandra's audio seems fine to me. Maybe my ear has become less discerning after all those years of listening to cassette recordings of independent punk bands though. 😉😂Either way, looking forward to watching this classic (again). 👍

Simone's Coconut Squire

For those who aren’t familiar: Grace Kelly would later marry into royalty and become Princess Grace of Monaco. Also, Alfred Hitchcock LOVES to hide himself in cameos in his own movies. See if you can spot him!

Wormtongue

North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, Strangers on a Train, Notorious, Frenzy, Rope

Paul G

The only questionable part of this movie is someone wrote the line “she’s okay” concerning Grace Kelly and it actually got approved!

Sam

Yeah, I skipped through it a bit, too, and the audio's fine. Having said that, I have also listened to my fair share of badly recorded punk bands, so we might be in the same boat.

OddThomas

Audio was fine for me

N.T. Stars

I expected far worse when you described audio problems for this. I'm a stickler on my own audio projects, too, but this sounds totally fine to me! The equalization was done well.

James M

I think this is my favorite Hitchcock film. "North by Nothwest" is excellent and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is also. It's hard to pick a favorite but this one just has that little extra for me. You can see why Hitchcock is so well known even though his last movie is now 50 years old.

Sam

Psycho next?

Jon Johns

Jordan! I'm not a professional YouTube creator, but... Is there a way to have some kind of visualization for your sound equipment, that shows the familiar red at top (too many db!) yellow next, and green filling most of the bar? If the mic dies, comes unplugged, or whatever, the bar would go black, or something? Well, I'll stop backseat driving, or Monday morning quarterbacking now, soory. 🍁 🤗. I'd LOVE a short patreon exclusive video tour of your recording room & equipment!?! That would be both fun AND interesting! But I understand privacy issues, and everyone who watched would have to sign an NDA... 🤣

Jon Johns

It would be cool for you two to do a faux intro for a fake movie, with a camera setup behind and to the right, or left, so we could see a behind the scenes of how you set everything up to run. Plus: it would be fun for you two to make up a movie, and talk about 🤣

Robert Durant

Ok first of all....the audio was fine, never had a problem. Secondly you described the film exactly the way I love about it. I love the whole time that you really don't know what is going on, you have only just pieces of a puzzle you think you have put together but at the same time you don't see the whole picture. And like y'all mentioned Jeff's paranoia and that there could be nothing wrong at all, that this is all just from him dealing with his cabin fever of being stuck in the apartment for so long (until Lisa and Stella get into it).

Jon Johns

I've seen this film dozens of times, but I just realized something: when Lisa is making out with him, and he starts telling her his suspicions... I mean, if it were me, and she was all over me, kissing, ugh! That cast around his hips? How painful! 🤣🍆

Jon Johns

I had the biggest crush on Grace Kelly, this was my first movie with her, and she is seared into my mind forever. I was maybe 12-13 years old 🤣 and fixated on her.

Jon Johns

I kind of feel bad for you two. This is one great example of a popcorn movie! And you two don't get to enjoy popcorn and candy and sody-pop.

Jon Johns

There is a fascinating story about how they got the reflections in the binoculars & camera lens! Obviously, no cgi back then! Practical effects. They built that entire courtyard, and multi story apartment building! Regarding the editing, it's not hard to notice the minimal cuts, and stationary camera; Hitchcock was masterful at blocking, too.

Jon Johns

Lol, I ALSO just realized that Mr. Thorvald, the murderer, portrayed by Raymond Burr, who later played a character in the TV series "Ironsides", who was wheelchair bound. Strange I never made that connection before...

JM63

Fantastic reaction!! You guys are absolutely right -- Rear Window is a meta-commentary on both film-watching **and** film-making. (Jeff “directs” the players and the action from a seated position, just as Hitchcock did on set.) The opening sequence, which takes the viewer on a tour of the “stories” in the apartments, ends with Jeff’s head pointing towards the courtyard. This image suggest that all of these storylines exist separately (like separate movies or TV shows) **except** in Jeff’s head, where they are absorbed into a single reality. This is exactly the same way that we, as film and TV viewers, process the various shows and movies that we consume. Because of this meta-commentary aspect, I think Rear Window is one of the greatest and most important films ever made. This film has so many layers that you'll be able to peel apart over the years. On one level, it’s a dark romantic comedy; in a cute and slightly perverse way, snooping on Thorwald saves Jeff and Lisa's relationship. (This relationship was partly based on the real-life affair between classic Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa.) And Thelma Ritter as Stella (the nurse, who also briefly appears in Miracle on 34th Street) is fantastic as the Greek chorus, sprinkling in witty retorts to Jeff in sharp Brooklynese. (Ritter had a fascinating career; she started on Broadway in the 1920s, retired to raise her children, and then stumbled into a film, radio, and TV career 20 years later as one of the greatest character actresses of all time.)

JM63

On a secondary level, Rear Window is a playful inversion of the tropes of film noir, a genre which was hugely popular in the 40s and 50s. Lisa takes on the role of a “femme fatale” who confronts Jeff with the greatest danger to an adventurous single man... domestication and marriage! 🤣🤣 At the start, Jeff puts on a tough front about eating fish heads and sleeping in the jungle, but ultimately Lisa is the one who shows guts and initiative while Jeff cowers in the shadows. (Fun Easter egg: Jeff's broken leg -- a long, protruding body part that doesn't work -- can be seen as a sign of temporary impotence, both in his personal and professional life. So how does he re-assert his dominance over the situation? By whipping out his massive telephoto lens, which he immediately places between his thighs! 😂 You’ll be able to spot a fair amount of sexual innuendo that got past the censors during later re-watches.) A deeper level is the meta-commentary about films and film-watchers mentioned above, including the way that films reflect our own fears and desires. The scenes in the windows often mirror the current topic of conversation or Jeff's psychological states. When the topic of marriage comes up, Jeff spies on the newlyweds. When Lisa and Jeff fight, Jeff turns his attention to Miss Lonelyhearts, as he imagines what life without Lisa might feel like. And Rear Window takes things in a darker direction by focusing on the voyeuristic aspect of constantly watching intimate scenes of other people's private lives, which only became possible with the advent of film and television.

JM63

Notice how each apartment across the courtyard has a long, rectangular window and a small, squarish one. The heights and widths of these windows closely resemble the aspect ratios of Cinemascope widescreens (a popular film format in the 50s) and television screens. As Jeff recuperates in his apartment, he flips through the "channels" in the courtyard -- a sitcom (the elderly couple), racier fare (Miss Torso), melodrama (Miss Lonelyhearts), and a murder mystery (the Thorwalds) -- depending on what he's in the mood to watch. Sitting in the shadows, like in a movie theater, he makes judgements about the characters he sees and uses them as points of comparison with his own relationship with Lisa. Is this unhealthy or natural? In this case their snooping solves a murder mystery, but in general terms the film leaves this as an open question. I’m so glad you enjoyed this classic Hollywood gem so much and were able to pick up on so many things during your first watch! Here’s hoping that we get a few more of these great films from the vault!

JM63

BTW, all of the action takes place on an enormous set with around 30 apartments, many of which had running water and were fully furnished to make them look lived-in. (The studio lighting on the set is also amazing, especially the blood-red artificial sunset during Lisa's dinner visit.) And I absolutely **love** the way Hitchcock creatively films dynamic dialogue scenes in Rear Window; very few of them use the standard "over-the-shoulder, shot-reverse shot" technique that we see in so many movies. (My favorite shot is Lisa in green reclining to the right while Jeff leans back in his chair to the left.) Also, your sound was excellent! Thanks for taking the time to equalize the levels, I'm sure that was quite difficult. But it didn't bother me one bit and I think the quality is plenty good enough for a YT edit if you ever decide to do one.

Darian Harman

The vibe: Goat's cheese, soppressata, fig jam and fresh basil on a cutting board, paired with a glass of tasty, but inexpensive red wine from Chile. It's a quiet night after a wet and rainy day, and the streetlamps' light is being reflected by the dampness of the roads. There's never a bad time for Hitchcock, but there IS a perfect time. I haven't watched Rear Window in years. Fuck yes.

Clipped

That was excellent. I was expecting the worst when you mentioned the audio but it didn't bother me in the least. Really glad you loved the film, too. Now on to Vertigo! I think you'll love Hitchcock's gorgeous use of color in that film, it's stunning.

David Martin

I don't think Lisa was a femme fatale in the the least. The main characteristic of a femme fatale is betrayal, and Lisa exhibited none of this. Yes, she sparred with Jeff about their relationship, but it was peripheral to the main story.

JM63

You're right, she's not a classic femme fatale. But I think she can be seen as a playful inversion of the femme fatale trope (i.e. a woman who uses her sexuality to lure a man to his doom, in this case the "doom" of domesticity). I'd also say that Jeff is a playful re-imagining of the film noir trope of the "investigator," who is often a gumshoe detective. (But in this case, he's a "gumshoe" who can't even walk or protect himself). These aspects add to my enjoyment of the film. I actually think the sparring about the relationship is the heart of the story; as I said above, the film can be seen as a dark romantic comedy. That's what I love about Rear Window -- it has multiple levels. (But RW itself is definitely NOT a film noir, I agree on that.) Thank you for your comment. The whole debate about "what is and isn't noir" and related definitions doesn't really interest me very much, but I'm broadly in the camp of "noir is a mood, not a genre." I really enjoy James Naremore's discussion of the topic in "More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts" (2008, 2nd ed.) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1007865.More_than_Night

John Molt

To Catch a Thief - a very fun movie, a very good movie, also starring Grace Kelly. Cary Grant, too.

John Molt

One of the best in the classics, with the same actor giving a performance of a lifetime, fun, almost Mystical, and, for the two of you, well, you may notice there's something said about what's important in life in this film, hidden behind the smiles. The name of the film is Harvey.

Trofim Lysenko

If you enjoyed the banter back and forth then the best of the lot would be Philadelphia Story. Black and White but best banter. Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. So quick you can't keep up.