Film journalist and author Christian Monggaard introduces one of Hitchcock's most loved classics, which he considers one of the best films ever made.
The set built for Rear Window was the largest ever constructed at Paramount Studios at the time: a full residential block with 31 apartments, 12 of them fully furnished, and more than 70 windows and doors. Hitchcock reportedly felt this allowed him to create a film almost separate from the cinema itself, following a photographer confined to his wheelchair as he and his girlfriend investigate a possible murder in the building opposite. The evening looks at how architecture and film meet here, and at the voyeurism of watching neighbours through every lit window.
