Tag: Jimmy Stewart

These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Rear Window and Community as Worldbuilding

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|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

Vertigo, La Jetée, and 12 Monkeys: Three Films Where Time is Treated Like Butter in Croissant Dough *Mind Blown Gesture*

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|Allison Vincent| I do not identify as a time travel girly. Movies where the laws of time and space are bent need strong foundations for me to enjoy them, otherwise I find myself inundated with intrusive thoughts about logic, the “rules of the universe” (those generated by the… Continue reading