#279: Window Watchers, Pt. 1: Rear Window

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Joe Wright’s new adaptation of the bestselling novel THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is hardly the first film to tip its hat to Alfred Hitchcock in general and 1954’s REAR WINDOW in particular, in no small part because Hitchcock’s film is in many ways a movie about the act of watching movies. But it can also be processed as a film about storytelling in general, or the journalistic impulse in particular, both readings of the film that we get into this week with our special guest, freelance critic Roxana Hadadi, who joins us to discuss REAR WINDOW’s tricky psychological themes and even trickier characterization. Plus, a piece of feedback about our recent episode on BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA prompts a discussion that ranges from how we process movie stereotypes to what’s good in Iranian cinema. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about REAR WINDOW, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: Tegan and Sara, “Living Room” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.7	Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
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1:01.0	Our co-host, Jennerve Yukowski, is currently recovering from a broken leg while watching her neighbors through a telescope.
1:05.7	But we have a special guest joining us in her stead.
1:08.7	Roxanna Hadati is a freelance pop culture critic whose work has appeared in Vulture, VAB Club,
1:13.3	Polygon, and elsewhere.
1:14.7	Hello, Roxanna.
1:15.9	Hey, everybody.
1:16.7	Thanks for having me on.
1:17.7	We keep inching and inching toward covering a film you might actually have to go to a movie
1:22.4	theater to see, but we're not there yet.
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