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REAR WINDOW
November 18, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Tonight, TCM begins a repeat cycle of this year’s The Essentials visit by Tina Fey, appearing with her former 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin, host of The Essentials, to co-host and present and comment upon some of her own favorite movies. The first film she chose is also part of this month’s James Stewart TCM tribute: the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window, co-starring Grace Kelly, and featuring one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best visual concepts for a film – and that’s saying something. Stewart plays a photographer, confined to his apartment with a broken leg, who alleviates his boredom by using his high-powered camera lenses to peek into the lives of the residents of the apartment building across the way. It’s voyeurism, it’s creepy, it’s sexy – and, ultimately, it’s murder.

 
 
 
 
 
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