|Courtney Kowalke| If I were a character in Rear Window (1954), I would be the woman who lives above Lars and Anna Thorwald with her husband and their dog. I have thought about this a lot—Rear Window is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched… Continue reading
|Andrew Neill| Let’s start with a trigger warning for the film Rear Window: the dog dies. The sensitivity around this subject is prevalent, powerful, and worthy of respect. There’s a whole site where a community of people compile trigger warnings for sensitive content in media… Continue reading
|Chris Polley| “The neighborhood hasn’t really changed that much,” NYPD Detective William McQueen said to The New York Times in 1979 for a story about record-breaking violent crime in the Big Apple. He added, “Homicides seem to be the thing we have the least control over. Burglaries… Continue reading
