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Just kind of a quick heads-up you may or may not have heard about: Film Forum sent along word of its planned Essential Hitchcock series beginning Dec. 9 with the Village voyeurism classic Rear Window. Everything you'd expect is pretty much here, including some rare silent reels from the British Film Institute and a five-minute trailer for Psycho.

There are lots of obvious must-sees (as in, "If you have never seen Notorious or Shadow of a Doubt in a theater, then you really must") in the program, but if you mark a single date out of 36 on your calendar, make it Dec. 30 or 31:

Dial M For Murder [will] be shown in its rarely-screened double-system 3-D version, which requires audience members to wear Polaroid glasses (not the inferior red-and-green kind) while two prints are run simultaneously for maximum depth and clarity. Film Forum has the only projection booth in New York City equipped with this system.

Show-offs! And thank God for that.