Episode 144 – Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby

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This time on the podcast, Ryan is joined by Josh Brunsting and Sean Hutchinson to discuss the 1968 film from Roman Polanski, Rosemary’s Baby

As mentioned in the episode, there are two bonus segments after the end music plays: a brief discussion with Sam Smith about designing the package for the Criterion Collection release of Rosemary’s Baby, and a short interview with James Greenberg, author of Roman Polanski: A Retrospective. The Sam Smith discussion begins at the 1 hour, 29 minute mark, and the James Greenberg interview starts at the 1 hour, 32 minute mark. A huge thanks to Sam Smith and James Greenberg for their time and patience.

About the film:

Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.

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Episode Links

• Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – The Criterion Collection
• The Witch Upstairs: Patsy Kelly in Rosemary’s Baby – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• “Stuck with Satan”: Ira Levin on the Origins of Rosemary’s Baby – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• 10 Things I Learned: Rosemary’s Baby – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• Rosemary’s Baby: “It’s Alive” – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• Three Reasons: Rosemary’s Baby – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• (Almost) All of Them Witches – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• CriterionCast • The October 2012 Criterion Collection Line-up In…
• CriterionCast • The October 2012 Criterion Collection Blu-ray…
• Rosemary’s Baby Blu-ray Mia Farrow
• CriterionCast • Packaging shots of the Criterion Collection…
• Rosemary’s Baby Movie Review & Film Summary (1968) | Roger Ebert
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – IMDb
• Rosemary’s Baby (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 630. Rosemary’s Baby | CRITERION AFFECTION
• Rosemary’s Baby – Movie info: cast, reviews, trailer on mubi.com
• Under the Covers: #630 ROSEMARY’S BABY (dir. Roman… | Film.com
• Film/Rosemary’s Baby – Television Tropes & Idioms
• James Greenberg’s Roman Polanski: A Retrospective

Episode Credits

• Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website)
• James McCormick (Twitter / cineAWESOME)
• David Blakeslee (Twitter / Criterion Reflections)
• Sean Hutchinson (Twitter / Latino Review / Best Movie Ever)

Next time on the podcast: I Married A Witch

Music for the show is from Bobby Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.