Rosemary's baby / Paramount ; a William Castle production ; produced by William Castle ; written for the screen and directed by Roman Polanski.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2200D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 630.Publication details: [New York] : Criterion Collection, ©2012.Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604656527
- 1604656522
- 9786314816339
- 6314816335
- Rosemary's baby (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, William Fraker ; production designer, Richard Sylbert ; art director, Joel Schiller ; costume designer, Anthea Sylbert ; edited by Sam O'Steen, Bob Wyman ; music, Christopher Komeda.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castevet (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon) soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building; despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, Guy starts spending time with the Castevets. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Minnie starts showing up with homemade chocolate mousse for Rosemary. When Rosemary becomes pregnant after a mousse-provoked nightmare of being raped by a beast, the Castevets take a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castevets' circle is not what it seems. The diabolical truth is revealed only after Rosemary gives birth, and the baby is taken away from her. Polanski's camerawork and Richard Sylbert's production design transform the realistic setting (shot on-location in Manhattan's Dakota apartment building) into a sinister projection of Rosemary's fears, chillingly locating supernatural horror in the familiar by leaving the most grotesque frights to the viewer's imagination. This apocalyptic yet darkly comic paranoia about the hallowed institution of childbirth touched a nerve with late-'60s audiences feeling uneasy about traditional norms. Produced by B-horror maestro William Castle, Rosemary's Baby became a critically praised hit, winning Gordon an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Inspiring a wave of satanic horror from The Exorcist (1973) to The Omen (1976), Rosemary's Baby helped usher in the genre's modern era by combining a supernatural story with Alfred Hitchcock's propensity for finding normality horrific. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Angela Dorian, Patsy Kelly, Ralph Bellamy.
Director of photography, William Fraker ; production designer, Richard Sylbert ; art director, Joel Schiller ; costume designer, Anthea Sylbert ; edited by Sam O'Steen, Bob Wyman ; music, Christopher Komeda.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1968.
Based on Rosemary's baby / by Ira Levin.
DVD release date: Oct. 30, 2012.
MPAA rating: R.
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
Disc 1. Feature; new restored digital transfer, approved by director Roman Polanski -- disc 2. [Special features].
Special features: Disc 2: Remembering Rosemary's baby (Interviews with Polanski, Farrow and producer Robert Evans); Ira Levin from Leonard Lopate's radio program (1997 radio interview with the author); "Komeda, Komeda": a feature-length documentary (71 min.). Booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park and Levin's afterword.