Rear Window Cabaret Cinema
Friday December 7, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1954, USA, Alfred Hitchcock, 112 min.
Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, and Thelma Ritter
Introduced by photographer
Lena Herzog
Free with a $7 bar minimum
Bits of bliss:
1. Stella: Maybe one day she'll find her happiness.
Jeff: Yeah, some man'll lose his.
2. Grace Kelly refused to smoke in films, except this one
3. Received four Academy Award nominations
About the Speaker
Lena Herzog is the author of several books of photography, including: Tauromaquia, Flamenco, Pilgrims, and Lost Souls. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review and Cabinet, among other publications, and has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States.

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1958, USA, Orson Welles, 111 min. (1998 version)
1947, USA, Charles Chaplin, 124 min.