There are many types of people in the world: music people, museum people, film people. For those who are all three of the aforementioned... people... and for those who also happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have quite the recommendation for you.
Tomorrow (Friday) night, Rear Window will be shown at the Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is truly a movie palace in Oakland that will surely transport you to another time. Built in 1931, it is an Art Deco haven. The exterior is striking; one can see its sign from afar. One cannot anticipate the interior. It is completely awe-inspiring. It is home to the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet, as well as a surrogate home to innumerable artists who come through to play a show (e.g., Boz Scaggs, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen). However, it is perhaps most beloved for its screenings of films from Hollywood's Golden Era. For five dollars, you will enjoy a newsreel, cartoons, raffles, music, and finally, the feature. The box office opens at 6, the doors open at 7, and the curtain rises at precisely 8 pm.
James Stewart stars in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) as a most adventurous photo-journalist who ends up in a wheelchair for the length of an entire summer. The heat is palpable and Stewart has nothing to do but sit in his apartment and look out the window below, across, and about. He becomes enamored of the going-ons in the neighborhood and soon can do little else. One night, he believes he witnesses a murder. Does he?
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