Clark Art Presents Series of Alfred Hitchcock Films

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —This March and April, the Clark Art Institute screens a series of films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, widely regarded as the master of suspense and one of cinema's most influential filmmakers.

A presentation and talkback with film scholar Will Schmenner, head of public programs, follows each screening.

All film screenings are free and take place in the Manton Research Center auditorium on select Thursdays at 6 pm. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0570. For more details, visit events.clarkart.edu.

March 19

Rear Window (1954)

For this classic thriller, Hitchcock took a hard-boiled detective story by Cornell Woolrich and mixed it with a love story by screenwriter John Michael Hayes. The story concerns world-class photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart), who has broken his leg. Confined to his wheelchair and bored out of his mind, Jeffries takes to spying on his neighbors. He begins to suspect, without any proof, that Mr. Thorwald (Raymond Burr) may have murdered his wife. Jefferies's point of view, limited to his camera lens and window, echoes the framing of the film itself, drawing the audience into his growing obsession. (Run time: 1 hour, 50 minutes)

March 26

North by Northwest (1959)
This story is a classic Hitchcock variation on the theme of the innocent man wrongly accused. Cary Grant transitions from standard issue advertising executive to accidental spy with the ease that only he possesses. Eva Marie Saint brings a seductive intelligence to their cat-and-mouse romance. Featuring perhaps the most iconic of Hitchcock's chase sequences—man versus crop-dusting biplane—this is not to be missed. (Run time: 2 hours, 16 minutes)

April 2

Vertigo (1958)

Scottie Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart), recently retired from the San Francisco police force, is approached by a college acquaintance to spy on his wife, Madeleine Elster (Kim Novack). His college friend is worried for his wife's mental health. Scottie finds himself hypnotically drawn to Madeleine; he, too, feels afflicted, suffering from vertigo caused by the trauma that forced him to retire. With Bernard Hermann's acclaimed score and imagery that invokes a dizzying vortex, Vertigo is Hitchcock's dark masterpiece. (Run time: 2 hours, 9 minutes)

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Discrimination Against Muslim Americans Persists 25 Years After 9/11

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:00AM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of Muslim Americans were among people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Untold numbers of Muslim Americans have suffered countless acts of discrimination in their aftermath.

"Of course, you'll find several accounts of Muslims from all over the U.S. describing how they went from the unknown kids in the school to being stereotyped or ridiculed for their Muslim names," Sidra Mahmood recalled recently. "However, many Americans forget that the victims of 9/11 were also Muslim Americans.

"I can't forget the time when a classmate broke down in sobs when 9/11 came up in our classroom at the Islamic seminary I went to in Texas, because her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her, died on 9/11."

Today, Mahmood is a chaplain at Williams College. In 2001, she was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, when terrorists forced two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and another plane into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. A third plane, which terrorists hoped to crash into a D.C. landmark, was brought down in western Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

The attacks, which ultimately claimed 2,976 lives, horrified people around the world, including in Mahmood's native land.

"I remember being aghast like anyone who witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers in real time," she said. "However, even as a child, fear gripped me about the possibility of war, especially once we learned that Afghanistan, right adjacent to Pakistan, would be attacked by the U.S. My mother had told me about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan when she remembered hiding in the dark after bomb sirens would go off in Punjab after intentional blackouts.

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