Special Screening of 'Rear Window' Coming to Area Theaters

Movie buffs, this weekend you have the chance to see Rear Window at several area theaters in a special presentation from Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

The film will be shown across the U.S. and in Alexandria at AMC Hoffman Center 22 and Regal Potomac Yards Stadium 16 on Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and again on Wednesday, March 25 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. You can purchase tickets at the theater or online.

Here’s more about the movie from Fathom Events:

The classic 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film stars Hollywood legends Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly and is digitally re-mastered for premium picture and sound quality. In addition to the film, movie buffs will also be treated to a specially produced introduction by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

Widely considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s very best films, Rear Window finds photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) wheelchair-bound with a broken leg and confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment.

To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartments around his courtyard.

As he watches his neighbors, he assigns them such roles and character names as “Miss Torso” (Georgine Darcy), a professional dancer with a healthy social life or “Miss Lonelyhearts” (Judith Evelyn), a middle-aged woman who entertains nonexistent gentlemen callers.

Of particular interest is a seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), who is saddled with a nagging invalid wife. One afternoon, Thorwald pulls down his window shade, and his wife’s incessant shouting comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeffries casually concocts a scenario in which Thorwald has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome fashion. Trouble is, Jeffries’ musings just might happen to be the truth.

Other Fathom film events coming up include a movie featuring live performances by Led Zeppelin, on March 30, and a 50th anniversary showing of ”The Sound of Music” in April.