FILM

Alamo Drafthouse Mason (Katy) presents Big Screen Classics: REAR WINDOW.

Like a rich Bordeaux from a good vintage, some films age well, delicately maturing and growing more sophisticated with each passing year. There is a wealth of cinematic gems out there, gathering dust in the annals of time. Enter Big Screen Classics - a place where we celebrate all of the accomplishments in movies over the past 100+ years. Here you'll see the crème de la crème of old movie magic.  You'll always be amazed at the riches of cinema history at Big Screen Classics.

This series also encompasses our Digital Classics Series. The newest advancement in digital movie technology involves the painstaking restoration and preservation of classic films using computer technology. The films are then printed onto 4K or 2K digital drives, providing the clearest and brightest image possible using our state-of-the-art digital projectors. Whenever an archive or a studio announces a new digital restoration, we rush to bring it to the Alamo.

Alfred Hitchcock's classic REAR WINDOW has been enthralling audiences for almost sixty years thanks to indelible performances by Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly and riveting direction by one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. A thrilling foray into voyeurism, REAR WINDOW is about professional photographer Jeff Jeffries (Stewart) who is wheelchair-bound after sustaining an injury on the job. Jeff is unused to sitting still for long and finds himself drawn into the world seen through his neighbors' windows as he recovers in his apartment. He begins to suspect that a neighbor may have murdered his wife and he lures his high society girlfriend (Kelly) into his amateur--and dangerous!--investigation.

Using highly stylized camera techniques and enticing the audience into a relationship with the screen that mimics Jeff's relationship with his window, REAR WINDOW is often hailed as one of the most outstanding films of American cinema.

Regina Scruggs, local critic and member of the Houston Film Critics Society, will be on hand to provide an introduction to the film.