Chez Classics at GV: Rear Window with John Anzalone

About this event

Welcome to the annual mini-Hitchcock fest with the lovely Chez Artiste folks! Professor John Anzalone will provide a brief introduction and a lively post screening Q&A session. This level of danger and suspense is so far elevated above the cheap thrills of the modern slasher films that “Rear Window,” intended as entertainment in 1954, is now revealed as art. Hitchcock long ago explained the difference between surprise and suspense. A bomb under a table goes off, and that’s surprise. We know the bomb is under the table but not when it will go off, and that’s suspense. Modern slasher films depend on danger that leaps unexpectedly out of the shadows. Surprise. And surprise that quickly dissipates, giving us a momentary rush but not satisfaction. “Rear Window” lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay. (Roger Ebert) Tickets available online and at the box office Free parking in the adjacent lot No after event is scheduled due to the length of the presentation