Rear Window
A few years ago, we hosted a creative residency for photographer and cinephile Bertrand Carrière. This spring, we are publishing Tout ceci est impossible, an eloquent testament to that residency – an art book in which the arrangement of images is anything but random. Several of the films featured in this book will be screened as part of this program. Tout ceci est impossible is a co-edition between Somme toute and the Cinémathèque québécoise.
35 mm print loaned by the Cineclub Film Society
Greenwich Village. In a wheelchair because of a broken leg, the reporter L. B. Jeffries is forced to stay at home. Glued to the window, he observes his neighborhood to pass the time. Witnessing a strange event, the photographer suspects a murder and tries to confound the killer from his privileged observation post.
Alfred Hitchcock
Born in a working-class suburb of London in 1899, Alfred Hitchcock began his career in the film industry as an intertitle designer. He then held various positions on set, including assistant director. He was given his first projects as a director by producer Michael Balcon, including the acclaimed The Lodger in 1927. Hitchcock then directed the first British talkie, Blackmail, which was a great success. The following films made him one of the most popular British directors of the time, appreciated even in the United States. Producer David O'Selznick invited him to Hollywood, where he directed, from Rebecca in 1940 to The Birds in 1963, from studio to studio, his most famous work. This American career was only interrupted by the war effort (Hitchcock participated as a director and editor) and by the last great success of the director, Frenzy, shot in Great Britain in 1971.
Bio & photo: Cinémathèque québécoise
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