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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 07:23 pm: | |
last night I watched a double bill of Disturbia and Hitchcocks Rear Window. I enjoyed disturbia a lot and thought I'd probably find Rear window a bit dated and slow.
I were wrong. Rear Window easily beats Disturbia on nearly all levels. the double edged and clever dialogue which disturbia has none of, the quality of the acting, just about everything. The only place where Disturbia won out was the quality of the bikini wearer.
There's some really good special features on the DVD (that box set of 16 Hitch films for £25 was one of the best bargains I've found and you might still be able to pick it up for that in HMV). Did you know that the set was too tall for the soundstage so they cleared out the basements and cut through the floor to create another two storeys. It's a great cleaned up version of film, the before and after demonstrations in the "making of" doc were shocking. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.17.13.200
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 07:33 pm: | |
What can be added to that?... You're right, Weber, probably Hitchock's best. And DISTURBIA, sure, very watchable - I mean I liked it (Shia Lebouf or however you spell it, best role for him so far is in this film); okay, yeah, it doesn't stand up... what can?...
A related tangent: 5 years before REAR WINDOW was a movie with a similar-sounding premise, called THE WINDOW (1949), starring Bobby Driscoll (who won an Academy Award for the film), about a boy who witnesses a murder, but can convince no one of it; my father still talks about this being a great film, but it's impossible to find (not on dvd, I don't believe). Has anyone seen this...? (sigh - yet one more reason for me to make a trip to Eddie Brandt's) |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 01:27 pm: | |
I think I did catch that on TV a few years back and it was quite good. Not a classic in my opinion but the boy was very good. |
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