Screening 26/5/08

panchamp posted:

Η Κινηματογραφική Ομάδα του Ο.Π.Α.
σας προσκαλεί στην προβολή της ταινίας
"Rosemary's Baby"
(1968, Roman Polanski, "Το Μωρό της Ρόζμαρι")
τη Δευτέρα 26/5/08 στις 17:00
στο αμφιθέατρο Β (Πατησίων 76, κεντρικό κτίριο).
Είσοδος ελεύθερη.

AUEB Film Club
invites you to the screening of
"Rosemary's Baby"
(1968, Roman Polanski)
on Monday 26/5/08 at 17:00
in classroom B (76, Patission Str., central building).
Free entrance.

Original trailer





s_dany added:

Ενδιαφέροντα trivia από το Imdb:

There was a popular belief that Alfred Hitchcock was originally offered the chance to direct this movie. This has been deemed false. The director was never approached.

There is a popular rumor that Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey gave technical advice and portrayed Satan in the impregnation scene. This is false - LaVey had no involvement with the film.

Directed by Roman Polanski, whose pregnant wife actress Sharon Tate was murdered in 1969 by Charles Manson and his followers, who titled their death spree "Helter Skelter" after the 1968 song by The Beatles, one of whose members, John Lennon, would one day live (and in 1980 be murdered) in the Manhattan apartment building called The Dakota - where Rosemary's Baby had been filmed.

There is a heatedly disputed rumor that Sharon Tate appears unbilled at the party Rosemary gives for her "young" friends.

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Rosemary, while waiting in Dr. Sapirstein's office, flips through an issue of Time Magazine with the cover, "Is God dead?" This is a real cover, dated April 8, 1966.

According to Mia Farrow, the scenes where Rosemary walks in front of traffic were spontaneous and genuine. Roman Polanski is reported to have told her that "nobody will hit a pregnant woman."

This film, along with "Repulsion" (1965) and "Le Locataire" (1976), forms a loose trilogy by Roman Polanski about the horrors of apartment/city dwelling.

According to John Parker's recent biography of Jack Nicholson, before the part of "Guy Woodhouse" was offered to John Cassavetes, production chief Robert Evans suggested Jack Nicholson to Polanski but, after their meeting, the director stated that "for all his talent, his slightly sinister appearance ruled him out".

Cameo: ['Tony Curtis' ] voice on phone of the actor who is struck blind by a witch's curse so that Rosemary's husband can get an acting job.

The script called for Rosemary (Mia Farrow) to explain to Guy (John Cassavetes), that she'd "been to Vidal Sassoon" for her dramatic new haircut. Thus, Vidal Sassoon was in fact flown to the set to arrange Mia Farrow's hair into the now iconic pixie cut she sports during the second half of the film. For the first part, she wears a blonde wig designed by famed stylist Sydney Guilaroff.

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The movie's poster was as #21 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere magazine.






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Opening credits: "Lullaby" sung by Mia Farrow




Slide show with "Lullaby"
(composed by Krzysztof Komeda, performed by Mia Farrow)




Rosemary's Baby "Lullaby" cover by Fantômas:
f@c#ing great!!! (but with spoilers!)