Now playing on youtube...
I'm uploading it as we speak.
shareThanks very much for uploading "Windows." I'm pleased that three years later, it's still up. This film has been notorious because of its lesbian stalker theme, but lesbians are not immune from being stalkers (or stalkees).
The script could use a little work – OK, a lot of work – but I was very impressed with the cinematography, which captured New York at the dawn of the '80s. As for the story, it has a few too many coincidences for my tastes, and Elizabeth Ashley's character could have been better developed (the scenes with her therapist could have been revelatory), but it maintained my attention for 90 minutes. Talia Shire seemed miscast, but the rest of the cast does a decent job. 6/10 stars from me.
Thanks again for making this much-reviled chestnut available.
OK, I have to grant,t eh cinematography is quite luscious.
While lesbians aren't immune from being stalkers, they were ridiculously often portrayed that way in mainstream film, to the point that the way you could positively identify a woman as a lesbian in a film was if they stared unblinkingly at another woman five inches from her face for a minute straight. Elizabeth Ashley's character could have been a guard from one of those old women's prison flicks. Hopelessly stereotypical.
It was indeed very stereotypical, especially in light of the absence of other portrayals of lesbians in films at the time. I still see that "predatory lesbian" stereotype in films, but at least there are other alternatives.
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