Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock

How Hitchcock Used Editing to Turn 'Rear Window' into a Masterpiece of Visual Storytelling

Rear Window (1998)

One of the Most Impressive Sets in Cinema History: Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'

Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "Martin Scorsese has praised Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as a film that can be watched “again and again” because its power lies less in the plot and more in how Hitchcock tells the story through purely cinematic means. He sees it as “pure cinema,” where camera placement, movement, cutting, sound, and the interplay of all the tiny details in the courtyard create an experience that stays fresh no matter how well the viewer already knows the outcome. Scorsese emp