As part of Picturehouse’s ‘Lynchspirations’ season Rear Window was paired with David Lynch’s Blue Velvet as a film that inspired it. Below is the introduction I gave for Hitchcock’s classic thriller, based on the rough one I had written before the screening at The Little Theatre in Bath in June 2025.
Fuelled by the 50s paranoia of McCarthyism, Rear Window continues to be a classic tale of paranoia, control and acknowledging changing, and breaking, traditions. Working just as well in an age of true crime podcasts and TikTok detectives.
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