Roman Polanski on "Rosemary's Baby" - Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection

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Director Roman Polanski, actress Mia Farrow and producer Robert Evans tell the story of bringing "Rosemary's Baby" to life.
Rosemary’s Baby is the reigning champ of psychological terrors. The film finds Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who believes that everyone is hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In this documentary, director Roman Polanski, actress Mia Farrow, and producer Bob Evans battle back and forth about the inception and completion of the iconic film. This doc has it all: Frank Sinatra dissing Mia, top-secret casting wishes, and behind-the-scenes fights.
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[@michaelciardi4835]

Rosemary's Baby is an example of perfect filmmaking, from set design, writing, acting, cinematography, soundtrack...just a gem. It's one of the few movies I can watch repeatedly and never get bored. I've been watching the film for at least 40 years now. I rank it as the best horror film ever made, and one of the best films of any genre, bar none.

[@Woodsaras]

Just seen it this week for the first time. Movies like this is very rare i agree with you totsly

[@explorelosangeleswithrealt5615]

I agree wholheartedly. It's a perfect film.

[@prudenceappleby5111]

Totally agree. Watched it first in my 20s; just watched it again @ aged 66....Brilliant; absorbing story, great acting; love the comedic turns of Ruth Gordon......very stylish, the whole package. No wonder thry show it in film schools👍

[@craigwiggins8287]

I absolutely 100 percent concur!!!

[@lockandloadlikehell]

Agreed. Same.

[@martinhesketh4916]

One of those rare movies you have to watch more than once to pick-up on all the little details you'd miss on first viewing. A masterpiece.

[@cherylb5680]

Totally agree, everytime I watch I pickup on things I've previously missed.

[@thegirlinquestion]

rosemary's baby has so far been the only horror movie to actually frighten me. one of my favourites.

[@dzanier]

Molly MH It is very scary. It is disquieting.

[@IanP1963]

+Daniel Zanier But shouldn't be aired on Christmas Day as I once observed !!!!

[@dzanier]

+IAN PAYNE That is shocking.

[@josephkelley8641]

In fact I'm still afraid of Mia Farrow based on this role alone. And, yeah, John Cassavetes terrifies the hell out of me. Even dead I'm scared of him.

[@wolveskriegfeuersturm1297]

Considering the notoriety of the film, you likely have seen "The Shining," if not I urge you to watch it.

[@DianaMRodriguezDCgal62]

I've watched this films more than a dozen times because each time I notice something different and fascinating. The acting is perfection, the setting and props remind me of my childhood in the 1960s. This movie is an experience, not just a film. I love the dialogue and all the NYC scenes. This is so much more than a horror film, this is a film about people, a city, the 1960s, and it is so well acted and directed. I just adore it.

[@heatherstub]

You couldn't have said it any better!

[@billybareblu]

Spot on Diana.

[@joeannchaney1219]

Amazing film.Still holds up.I just watched this two days ago.

[@doloresesparza6474]

i agree !

[@josephjohnson1794]

i so agree Diana. I've seen this movie a few times myself, and notice details each viewing. another diehard fan mentioned the scene when Minnie and Laura Louise drop by to give Rosemary the tannis root necklace.....as Rosemary goes to adjust the record player, 2 posters on the wall are of Broadway plays..."Luther" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross". Guy starred in both.

[@bunny.thebest9103]

This is my favourite Roman Polanski movie. He made a masterpiece. Mia Farrow's performance is one of the greatest in history. There are moments in history that makes you admire cinema and they were right here in this movie.

[@topologyrob]

His pathetic little films mean nothing compared to his raping of children.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

Robert Evans guaranteed her an Oscar. The sad thing is, that she wasn't even Nominated. 65 years later I'm still angry!

[@LivingLegendMe]

Her performance as Daisy in the Great Gatsby will never be bettered. Her voice was full of money.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@LivingLegendMe I forgot that one. I always had a weak spot for what was considered a "failed" production. All actors were great, Mia in particular. The woman she played is not very sympathetic. A far cry from Rosemary, eh? She seduced Bob Evans to play her. "Dear Bob; can I be your Daisy?" No kidding. I hate the Gatsby remake without even haven seen it. A bland Daisy, and, what was it? A hiphop music score?

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@willemvandeursen3105 The remake is a kind of made for tv thing. It just doesn´t stand up on the big screen. Mia nailed the role.

[@isa4777]

Classic ...there should be a mention of the super trippy soundtrack... by Krzysztof Komeda

[@robzilla730]

Yea. Soundtrack was great!

[@saulger6409]

@BRYLANT5700 You are a nutcase. Get some help.

[@stevew9584]

The soundtrack is PERFECTION!

[@cadaverdog1424]

Outstanding musical score!! One of the best ever!! Glad to see someone else who realizes this/Komeda created much of the film’s frightening atmosphere____

[@lolaflores5388]

And Mia Farrow singing!

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

the subtleness of the film is what makes it so horrifying, we know what lies in store for Rosemary but can do nothing about it, once I realized that even her husband was in on it, that is pretty scary, extraordinary film

[@zobielamouche1]

+Sean Jacobs yes, one of the main psychological aspects of this film is the interplay between (her) paranoid ideas and the confirmation of these ideas

[@quintonpierce2582]

great comment by you.

[@quintonpierce2582]

+zobielamouche1. Satanism is alot more prevalent than folks realize esp among Jesuit catholics

[@theresechristiansen9769]

I knew, when I scrolled down the comments that I'd finally find the first screw-ball comment Quinton Pierce+

[@teeniebeenie8774]

its said polanski wanted to replace mia....

[@hollywooda111]

The dream sequences for this film are outstanding, its the perfect replication of how a dream feels.

[@humanbeing2420]

I agree. I love the way Rosemary's dreams incorporate the voices she hears coming from the adjacent apartment, but they're spoken by figures in her dreams. I often fall asleep with podcasts playing in the background, and if I don't set my device to turn off automatically, it will play all night and my dreams end up filled with people speaking whatever is being said in the podcasts...

[@FelipeElGatoBustamanteRenda]

Ruth Gordon was the best!

[@chrishintz1077]

Cassavetes not being comfortable w/o his tennis shoes may have actually helped the film. You know something is off with his character. His reaction to Mia’s delight that the baby is alive is priceless : the unwillingness to touch her abdomen is spot on perfection. The nervous laugh too

[@willemvandeursen3105]

The movie is crammed with such little gems. I saw RB many, many times, I worked in a cinema and it was screened frequently in themed programs. The same with Don't Look Now, I watched and watched and watched.

[@chrishintz1077]

@@willemvandeursen3105 omg, I thought (from afar) that the tiny thumbnail was Julia Child! ;). Still get the creepy freak out moments with both films you mentioned.

[@LivingLegendMe]

It was brilliantly casted. At the time it seemed inconcievable that an actor would give his wife to Satan for the sake of his career. Not so much these days. It´s probably normal now.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@LivingLegendMe I can offer you a few witches from Satan's harem, mint condition. (a little bit frayed at places) 😊

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@willemvandeursen3105 They mostly all go crazy and many eventually suicide.

[@jackon6546]

Mia Farrow looks and sounds good for someone that's almost 70.

[@edp5409]

ADRENOCHROME.

[@488George]

^^^I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TYPE THAT!!!

[@skreety0455]

70 is the New 40!

[@clevelandplonsey7480]

Ugh. No thanks.

[@smurf902]

I actually cried in certain scenes with Rosemary at her wit's end. She's a real nervous, cooky, ANNOYING, child-like character at the beginning but you start routing for her by the end, you believe in her. She's a kind hearted, caring and very determined woman. They underestimated her.

[@romanclay1913]

I first saw this film in 1968 at a UCLA dorm. Seen it many times and it is a confirmed masterpiece. It is a psychological horror film with no jack-in-the-box gimmicks or stunts. For me the scariest moment is when Mia Farrow uses the Scrabble pieces to make a name.

[@amina-pr8xt]

It's also psychologically horrific when "Rosemary" thought she was safe at "Dr. Hill" but she wasn't...

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Ironically the worst villain in the film is a character not part of the group-Dr. Hill-when he turns over Rosemary to the coven! Rosemary should have said to Hill during that scene:"He called you Charly Nobody."

[@RenanCMaia]

One of the best films ever made!

[@mrangsta]

I would say it's a lot more complicated than that, and there are a lot of factors here. Sure, you can bring up that argument that, if anyone argues about his innocence, they are 'sick human beings, and pedofiles themselves'. But, we call for open-mindness; what if there is more to it than anyone knows? None of you were there, so no one knows what truly happened. There are lots of shades of grey here, among the black & white...it just doesn't make sense to me, for someone to instantly assume a position, and stick to that; that is ignorance in itself. Polanski admits he likes younger girls, but says that she also joined in; why admit that he likes younger girls, but then lie that she wasn't willing? Surely you would deny it all? I just find it ridiclious that people can assume their own holy position, as if they are some highly-goodness people, who have never committed a something questionable..and to condemn others for simply speaking their minds.. So, I ask you; were you there? Do you know exactly what happened? Did you see it? Or is this what you have simply heard off newspapers.. and from other people? I thought that people only believed things if they have seen it; aren't fairytales like the tooth fairy, and Santa, unreal because no one has seen them? Yet, people don't need to see something like an apparent 'crime' to know that they are 100% right, but children are condemned for believing in Santa, even though they have not seen him/her, yet, adults can safely assume that something is truthful, that it is simply it, and there are no other possible questions, even though they have not seen it for themselves. What on earth is going on with mankind?

[@RenanCMaia]

Louie Dee I'm talking about the movie not the director's life.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

brilliant director. the tenant is so good also

[@vrxcld5014]

@@RenanCMaia Good movie but not one of the best. In my opinion it's 20 minutes too long and the end is quick.

[@queerchoreography54]

Absolutely

[@Je-Vette]

The story is in the book. Pregnancy is a very vulnerable condition and in the end you know you’ll have to have help to deliver that baby. The fear of being surrounded by enemies and having a doctor not believe you but return you to the danger…. Very scary

[@TroyBrooksPainter]

Brilliant from start to finish.

[@paulawhipple795]

Polanski best director not like the crappy shit directed today

[@7777Scion]

+ifuckyoursister20 Polanski is not a Jew.

[@BAFFLing752]

His work is very good, but best director? That's a matter of opinion.

[@LivingLegendMe]

Crap human being, but brilliant director. What a loss to cinema his antics with kids were.

[@windstorm1000]

Just love Romans total emotional in olvment in the shots we see of him especially directing Mia. Hes right THERE, almost like an empathetic magician,telling a story par excellence, guiding his actors to make the best choices for the story , and co trolling the camera like a voyeur, the visual, enotional response of us. Those are the best kind of directors. Spiegebergs one too. Brilliant artist.

[@siddharthgaur2205]

I remember watching it at night . Man the ending was so creepy i got chills.

[@ExposedRoot]

My absolute favorite movie. I watch about 3-5 times a year including last night. As a former New Yorker I feel the streets, the style dress. Love the shots, the length of the scenes and the dialogue is perfect. I know this film up and down but I must admit, I had never noticed the way Ruth Gordon rotated the fork when she ate at the table until watching this. Awesome documentary.

[@nirvanageddon4979]

ExposedRoot I totally agree

[@tarnum113]

yes. This is one of a few movies that I can rewatch a couple times a year. There is something so real in this film. I'm from Russia and when I went to New York last year the first thing I visited was Dakota building =)

[@amina-pr8xt]

Is the Dakota building accessible?

[@odalyscardona339]

​@@amina-pr8xtnot for filming anymore

[@amina-pr8xt]

@@odalyscardona339 and for visitors?

[@SweetUniverse]

Mia seemed so young, innocent & hurt-able. You don't want them to hurt her. She had a fragileness about her.

[@Thundralight]

Another thing that is scary is that apartment it tool place is the same one John Lennon lived in when he was murdered-- the Dakoda

[@noneyabusiness5899]

I've watched this movie untold times. It's like a puzzle you put the pieces together to see the whole.picture. Acting was superb by all and best horror pic still today to me.

[@lilbutterball14]

This film is and always will be my absolute FAVE..a brilliant masterpiece from the behind the cameras and the actors it just OOZES with character and talent. Timeless.

[@rational-public-discourse]

Wait a second. What Mia Farrow said about the phone booth scene is true. It was very clever, but she is either mistaken or simply not want to reveal Polanski's trick when she says that it was William Castle. There were two shots. The first one was with Ralph Bellamy; that is why we think that the character is Dr. Saperstein. But then they put William Castle in there, and once you watch it a couple times repeatedly, you can see by just looking at the back of the head that it was two different people - it's either that or they did something to the back of Castle's head, perhaps groomed his hair or made him wear some kind of wig or netting to make it look like the back of Ralph Bellamy's head.

[@alanaronald244]

Love Mia Farrow as an actress, Polanski talented director, good script, cinematography, book rendered faithfully, movie scary as hell. Ruth Gordon outstanding , as per usual. Watch it again: still stands up. Just enough humour to keep it light & entertaining within the genre.

[@vrxcld5014]

How was it scary loooool? Its the least scariest movie I have ever watched.

[@gca3532]

Ohh I totally agree, well said!

[@keythdanielsen8316]

@@vrxcld5014 Your perception is as good as your English ("least scariest"?).

[@michaelsieberg4216]

And he was a child rapist

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@vrxcld5014. It’s really more a conspiracy thriller than a horror film. but the elements are certainly there.

[@Thundralight]

what is really scary is what happened to his own baby

[@user-st5up4kh9y]

What ?

[@Thundralight]

@@user-st5up4kh9y Manson family murdered his wife and unborn baby which was scarier than this movie was.

[@user-st5up4kh9y]

@@Thundralight Wow...that's scary.

[@hispanosaurusrex]

He paid Manson to kill his wife. It was a satanic sacrifice

[@josephconsoli4128]

So true. It's almost as if Polanski summoned up evil with this movie. He was submerged in it. I love it, but you feel disturbed watching it. Just afterwards Polanski dealt with one of the most evil events in history by one of the most evil people in history. It makes you think.

[@justincase2271]

My favorite film ever since I saw it for the first time in the late 70s. Rosemary's Baby is just brilliant.

[@vrxcld5014]

How is it brilliant as I found it rather slow with a sprinkle of a story. Very predictable 6/10 movie. I love movies like the silence of the lambs etc.

[@anaseymour4556]

@@vrxcld5014 You're crazy

[@fabiantom]

A great description of the work on the film, but unfortunately a very important detail was omitted. Every detail of the film was wonderfully planned by Roman Polanski, who knew from the very beginning that there was only one person who could help him create something great. This detail is the main musical theme of the film, created by Krzysztof Komeda. The music significantly enhanced a great movie.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

It is odd that neither the director nor the producer (or even Mia) didn't mention the tremendous score created for the movie. Man, there are scenes where the music just propels it all, makes everything feel even more tense and scary. Plus the lullabye sung by Mia, and the music when she lays eyes upon baby Adrian in terror.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

Roman knew Komeda when he started to make films in Poland. He did a great job too on Fearless Vampire Killers, but was basically a jazz man.

[@reclaimedandrested]

Crazy how no one talks about how handsome John Cassavettes is in the film.

[@keythdanielsen8316]

Maybe because he wasn't. Creepy looking is more like it.

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

naybe theres more 'important things to notice! Wake uo

[@Althom1990]

Ruth Gordon mentions it.

[@deerheart87]

He was v v hot but such a git

[@helen704]

he is absolutely GORGEOUS in this movie

[@Jucelegario]

I want the 4 hours version. Am I sick?

[@privatedeborah1004]

No, you are a very sane person, I want to see it too!

[@hamburgareable]

No, not at all. Wouldve loved to see it as well.

[@skreety0455]

The version with J-LO AND BEN?!!??? HMMMM

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@skreety0455 Aaaarrggh!

[@abbydevito7453]

16:35 Sharon was an incredible beauty but an even more incredible person.

[@bluedasher74]

I've always loved this film. Polanski, Mia Farrow with her pixie haircut, the "Lullaby" theme song, the devil rape scene, etc...everything about this film is great.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Mia was absolutely perfect in the role. Should have been nominated for the Oscar.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

How on earth does Bob Evans not know that Mia wasn’t nominated for an Oscar? I find this to be completely unbelievable. I mean, WTF???

[@jeff97ish]

Can't say enough about this film. They created magic.

[@vrxcld5014]

What magic? Silence of the lambs is magic not this.

[@yamchathewolf7714]

That's what satanists do.

[@jeff97ish]

@@vrxcld5014 The suspense. Silence of the Lambs can take a back seat to Rosemary's Baby in my opinion.

[@veilofreality]

@@vrxcld5014 are you kidding? Silence of the lambs is good, but Rosemary's Baby is in another league.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@vrxcld5014. The 2 films are very different, but both are great. RB requires a lot more attention because it’s more intricate and its pacing is slower than Silence’s. I think they’re equally great. Very different but great. Not everyone has the attention span to fully appreciate RB.

[@kimbattles2399]

I thought John Cassevettes was great, in one of my favorite early seens in the film when Rosemary and Guy have dinner with Hutch, Johns character knows a lot about what Hutch was talking about. I often time wish Hutch was in the film a little longer than he was

[@nicholasjanke3476]

The Hutch character was too bright and knowledgeable to be in the story too much. He shows up again in the sequel Son of Rosemary.

[@anonymousgirl799]

Rest In Peace, Robert Evans 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@LivingLegendMe]

He was Brilliant. He also produced The Godfather.

[@LannieLord]

31:11 The brilliance of this tiny scene ....gasp. THIS HAPPENS during R.E.M. sleep . It has never been so well illustrated on FILM like this . External noise filters into your head ---------> comes out the other end as your vision of whatever sound you heard . A door slams down the hall - and your BRAIN processes it as a gun shot . So in your dream; you'll see a person holding a smoking gun towards you.

[@LannieLord]

"I told you she wouldn't be open minded" pertained to Terri . They told Terri that she was going to give birth to the Devil's baby in exchange for whatever. Terri did not want to partake . So either Terri killed herself to get out of it OR had a spell cast upon her and that forced her to jump.

[@stevencampbell7473]

The painting of the burning cathedral is especially freaky.

[@karanvirkooner1993]

Rosemary’s Baby is a groundbreaking horror masterpiece and it paved the way for The Exorcist(1973) The Wicker Man(1973) Don’t Look Now(1973) The Omen(1976) Suspiria(1977) all of which are wonderful movies and are classics in their own way

[@LannieLord]

Oh dear God- Don't put The Omen in line with those other movies. The Omen is a cheap-yet- high budget "exploitation movie" . The ONLY scene worth anything is when the nanny hangs herself in front of all the kids at the party. That's it. I also have issues with "Don't Look Now" but let's leave it at that.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Thanks for mentioning Don’t Look Now. I love that film, and it so rarely gets mentioned. Julie Christie is absolutely luminous in it. And Suspiria took obvious inspiration from RB. That’s another movie I adore. Talk about your fractured fairy tales!

[@michaelpryor8015]

The most frightening part? Rosemary embraces her seed even after knowing “the truth”

[@WesleyNiman]

Agreed!

[@thomaslindholm4104]

This was a fascinating watch. I'm going back to the beginning and watch it again!

[@TomDenneyArt]

A compelling look at cinematic and cult history, especially considering Polanski and his connection to Charles Manson just a year after this movie was made.

[@obsoleteelite8258]

I want to know more on this topic with his connections to Manson & Royalty.

[@defoperator7993]

@@obsoleteelite8258 mansons defense was that Polanski was a satanist and that his pregnant wife’s Sharon tates death was a satanic ritual executed by Polanski and the Hollywood machine based off of the movie

[@diarysawan]

​what connections to royalty ? I've never heard of this before...

[@eddiemachetti6862]

This is one hell of a film. I really enjoyed this the first time I watched it and still enjoy it once a year. Top notch film making.

[@IanP1963]

Ira Levin signed my copy of the book, without Ira, it would never have been anything, lets here more about Ira please !!!!!

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

+IAN PAYNE Very cool! I loved the book and the original cover for it!

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

+IAN PAYNE TERRIFIC!

[@dawnfinch9935]

Yes I totally agree with you

[@geoffjoffy]

Rosemary's Baby is one of a very few horror films which send a shudder down the spine. The atmosphere throughout is chilling. It could NEVER be remade.

[@vrxcld5014]

I didn't find it scary in anyway. You need to watch real scary movies.

[@geoffjoffy]

@@vrxcld5014 I'd rather watch a scary movie than a real beheading. So no thank you.

[@Woodsaras]

@@vrxcld5014 you are clueless.

[@randywhite3947]

It’s been remade

[@geoffjoffy]

@@randywhite3947 I don't think that was a remake - more like a poor sequel.

[@kathyhays4025]

Filmed in the Dakota where John Lennon lived n was shot at.

[@beatlefan713]

Ya and John Lennon was friends with Mia Farrow. There’s a lot of weird connections

[@leighstreet8298]

@@beatlefan713 the song dear prudence by the Beatles, is about mja Farrow's sister

[@zzzbbbooo]

@@beatlefan713 Yeah, all weirdos and sickos...

[@dante22723]

Such a sad man with a tragic life

[@highdesertsunset3011]

Brilliant man, Brilliant work. Good piece.

[@ethelesparza2127]

I watched this movie for the first time in a huge, old, El Paso theater for my birthday while I was 5 months pregnant. My birthday is August 9th, like Sharon Tate's death. RIP SHARON 💐

[@kauanamaral1654]

@@deaf2demands706 ?

[@wotan10950]

Truly a classic movie. The acting performances, the direction, the sets, the whole eeriness and unsettling feeling. I was 12 when my parents took us to see it in the theater! I’m sure they didn’t have a clue beforehand what it was about. But they were too transfixed to leave! It’s probably the greatest horror movie because there’s no obvious horror - no blood, no heads chopped off, no witches flying around - it’s all subconscious. It plays with your head. It was absolutely the right choice to NOT show the baby. That would’ve ruined it. The book gives a better explanation of what the baby looks like, but the film just shows Rosemary’s reaction to him, and to the whole evil enterprise.

[@thesummerland6165]

agree..the betrayal, etc , horrifying, and not showing the baby's face makes it all the more terrifying bc we all imagine what is our own scariest subconscious archetypal image of what it would be!

[@LannieLord]

My parents took me to see this - and I was in 3rd grade !!

[@chanroobi7460]

I believe this movie is one of the most psychologically terrifying films that I have ever seen. I was born in 1967 so it was really fascinating to see what the fashions were and what life was like back then.

[@veilofreality]

Any aspiring filmmaker should study this movie scene by scene, dissecting how everything was shot and orchestrated. Brilliant, stellar craft in all areas of film making.

[@cgab12]

Polanski’s most amazing set was the castle in “The Fearless Vampire Killers”. The attention to detail and the panorama was absolutely extraordinary, I thought that he filmed it in a real castle, but it was all shot in a studio. There is very little information on the creation of this set, I wish he would discuss it. Maybe I’ll write him a letter.

[@MrYoungcam]

Well done, 'Vice'. This needs to go on the Criterion Collection edition of the movie.

[@Fnargl99]

Is vice going to donate the revue from this film to victims of child sexual assault. you don't have to but for what he did seems to have suffered very little.

[@mollychambers4659]

***** It wasn't fucking consensual. He drugged her

[@PolCoolguy]

Molly Chambers Details

[@mollychambers4659]

Just read a single article about the actual crime :S

[@berniebernstein1]

NKDuisburg02 Yes many people have pointed out my beautiful hook nose. Has anyone told you that you look a bit like a penguin?

[@yeahbee8237]

berniebernstein1 ROFL!!!

[@josephkelley8641]

Mia just killed the role, she was fantastic - as was and is the great Roman Polanski.

[@robbiesilverwolf]

* rapist Roman Polanski

[@skreety0455]

"All of them Witches!" Tee-hee? Solving the Anagram....

[@smurf902]

​@@skreety0455 that was a chilling scene. I like when she figures out it's the name, not the name of the book

[@skreety0455]

@@smurf902 And we're there with Hutch in spirit. Hutch is a great character.

[@bostonpictures6600]

Great vid thanks for posting

[@jacekkowalczyk9909]

MR Roman made a masterpiece

[@josephkelley8641]

Previous post made me wonder if Mia was ever offered the role of Jack's wife. In "The Shining." Shelly Duvall was sensational - just curious how Mia would have played that. ...

[@LivingLegendMe]

Mia would have been great too. Maybe better because she looked so vulnerable.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ROSEMARY'S BABY AND THE SHINING: 1. A young couple moves into a building with a notorious reputation. 2. The buildings are both secretly under the control of a sinister cult of some kind (the witch cult, the ghost cult). 3. In both stories the husband joins the paranormal element in the building and betrays his wife. 4. In both stories the little boy is the focal point of the paranormal events. 5. In both stories the husband is trying to make it in the entertainment industry (Guy wants to be a star actor, Jack wants to be a star writer). 6. In both stories the building has a recent suicide of a previous tenant (in Rosemary's Baby Terry commits suicide, in The Shining Grady commits suicide. 7. In both stories the young couple is warned beforehand by an older wiser man about moving in (in Rosemary's Baby, Hutch warns the couple, in the Shining, Halloran sort of warns the Torrances about moving into The Overlook). 8. In both stories the wife figures out what's going on and becomes suspicous of her husband. 9. In both stories the wife character is depicted as very naive and easily taken advantage of.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@LivingLegendMe You begrudge Shelley Duval HER best role? Like Mia, Shell never got an Oscar or nomination for it.

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@willemvandeursen3105 Never. I was just musing. Shelley played the part brilliantly. Nicholson went through a ritual before each scene to summon up demons to aid his performance. Unbelievable, but it´s captured on You Tube somehwere.

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@nicholasjanke3476 Naive...lol. Well I guess nobody suspects their husband is totally in league with the Devil.

[@nomopms1]

I was 10 when this came out, and the carriage on top of the hill, alone, spooked the crap out of me. I didn't actually see the movie until I was an adult. It was extremely well done. Every detail drew you in. The best part is that Polanski left enough to our imaginations that it was a great spooky movie, without blood, guts, slicing, dicing, moving beds, and green pea soup. The Exorcist straight up left us petrified, but Rosemary's Baby is a super good creepy flick. Excellent documentary!

[@LivingLegendMe]

In essence it was a story about innocence and depraved betrayal.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@LivingLegendMe. It’s essentially a conspiracy thriller.

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@paulvoorhies8821 Rosemary is now out there somewhere, and her baby is being worship by the scumbag WEF....

[@gedkennedy8059]

Excellent doc, so pleased to see this - there’s barely any extras on the Blu-ray other than a few minutes of an old behind the scenes feature and a trailer. Best video on KZbin in years.

[@LannieLord]

This doc is on the basic DVD (non-Blu-Ray) . weird.

[@skreety0455]

Roman: "Absolutely!" (Castevet)

[@frizza241]

No film has left more of an impression on me as this film...and was born years later but this film always leaves me deep in thought days after I watch it....wish there was an immediate follow up...but truly one of the GREATEST MOVIES ever made.

[@poppyfield1619]

I agree with you on that. Mia Farrow was so mesmerising in this film I couldn't stop looking at her. She played the part of Rosemary so well, a naive young bride completely in love with her husband. There were so many chilling moments. The moment she saw her reflection devouring the raw liver..gruesome! and when she was trying to tell the doctor about the satanic neighbours and begging him to protect her..then him turning her over to Guy..I was screaming inside for someone to believe her! A brilliant film and cast certainly up there with the greats.

[@hetmanjz]

I'm not at all prepared to say that Polanski should be unconditionally absolved of the crime he committed - perhaps even in spite of the fact that Samantha Geimer herself has seemingly (for her part at least) more or less done so - but does that mean that his work as a director should be removed from public circulation, should be unspoken of, off limits for appreciation of its merits? Not at all prepared to say that either....

[@privatedeborah1004]

People must learn to divide art from the person who created it. This movie is a masterpiece, it would be a crying shame if it would be no longer in public circulation. You are allowed to judge Roman Polanski as a public figure who committed a crime but it is wrong to say, because Polanski is a person with a dark past, you have to ban his movies.

[@anaseymour4556]

Although I have never seen anyone say this because you would have to ban everything in Hollywood as well.. everything Harvey Weinstein produced and Woody Allen lmao, You'd lose so many movies.. no one even says that

[@usacut6968]

In some photos taken on the set of Rosemary's Baby, Polanski can be seen with (fast-talking) Robert Evans, and you can clearly see who is working hard, very hard, of course, it's Polanski -pale and tired

[@Jackdelroy1]

This is amazing, thanks for this!

[@donnasmith8742]

To think when rosemary’s baby came to theaters Sharon would be dead the next year. How horrible. Its amazing Roman can talk straight with he murder of his pregnant wife and his pregnant mother in the concentration camps during world war II.

[@765kvline]

An exceptional film. Perfect in nearly every quality. Dr. Strangelove, Rebecca, Casablanca, Citizen Kane and Rosemary's Baby are tops!

[@cl759]

The description:rosemarys baby is the reigning champ of psychological terror!! Exactly how i feel about it.

[@moviewong7728]

thanks for sharing!

[@CuteCatFaith]

Good clip, uprated, shared. The Dakota was, indeed, pretty impressive as a locale.

[@65g4]

Classic film just watched it again today its a true masterpiece. Great documentary thanks for posting.

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

Notice in the movie at beginning, a death in front of the building, near where John Lennon died. The chapter in the book Rosemary reads, "Prudence" Mia's sister's name who both joined the Beatles in India, hence "Dear Prudence". Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate murdered by Manson and Manson occasionally hung out at Doris Day's son's house, along with some of the Beach Boys (they recorded one of Manson's songs) as well as John Lennon. Strange happenings went on Laurel Canyon, Ca. Most of those hanging out like Crosby, Stills, Zappa, Joni Mitchel, Mamas & Papas, and many, many others all had parents in very high military intelligence, CI.A., defense industry, etc. While Jim Morrison didn't really hang with that crowd he did often rent a bungalow behind the Laurel Canyon General store where all of them frequented. That inspired The Doors song "Love Street". Oh, yeah and Morrison's Dad was the Navy Admiral who commanded the fleet in the gulf which ignited the Viet Nam war. Lastly, the military had a complete Hollywood soundstage underground in Laurel Canyon often used to creatate propaganda films.

[@Adriana-vp1rm]

John Lennon was killed because he would have exposed pedophilia. He was starting.

[@wojciechjankowski5707]

VICE is just like : "Trololo-lolo-lololo-lololo Wo ho-ho-ho!" I love you guys

[@mcspikesky]

Sad all these comments divert from the brilliance of the film.

[@pinkfloyd3477]

***** good comment!...and surname!

[@mcspikesky]

***** No, nor do we ignore the bad stuff that Polanski did. What we should do is realise that not everything is black and white. Life isn't so simple.

[@dreesdroeftoeter]

***** Any attention to his art at this point comes from his notoriety.. so whatever history you're thinking of would involve a time machine.

[@Vernostonus]

+SexyEunuch Jimmy Savile, R. Kelly, Bryan Singer, Stephen Collins... the list goes on and on...

[@obscuremedia]

FACTS: As for the "drugging" unproven because no toxicology tests were taken. According to THREE eyewitnesses, Samantha Geimer was NOT drunk nor under the influence of drugs. THREE eyewitnesses did testify that Samantha acted like his lover. THREE eyewitnesses said she was acting entitled and pissed off when the encounter was interrupted. Bryan Singer has been proven innocent by the credit card receipts his lawyer produced to show Singer was in Canada filming "X-Men" when Michael Egan claimed he sexually assaulted him. Singer cannot be in two places at the same time. Stephen Collins never hurt anyone. He merely flashed himself. Never touched, nor sexually assaulted. Only flashed. Hardly a crime, yet he's lost his livelihood due do a vindictive wife who had been through six lawyers and a judge who was constantly telling her she was not entitled to the things she believed she was. She lied on her depositions claiming she "gave up her career to help Stephen with his." One only has to look at her IMDB page and note that during the years she claimed she did not act, she clearly had at least no less than a dozen credits to her name. So she lied, then when it looked like the judge was going to penalize her for her actions, she illegally recorded a therapy session where the therapist was under obligation to divulge to the police if she felt Collins was a threat to anyone, including himself. However, she did not. The recording was released because of a scorned wife. In the final divorce judgement, the judge found Faye Grant in contempt and told her she was not entitled to more than the sale of the house and that she "should not gain financially due to her actions." It always amazes me how people like you want to paint with as broad a brush as you like, but you don't believe you have to do your own research to back up your claims.... Everything you say is the truth. You all sound like Trump on a Tweeting tirade. Neither of you want to take responsibility for your erroneous statements.

[@jankowalski-lg6bs]

I miss this film clarifications regarding the music. Music played in the film one of the primary roles. Form Krzysztof Komeda and his character was important. Polanski took music coincidence. Komeda always created music for films Polanski until his death (he died at 38 years old)

[@robertab3439]

PM I'm

[@Kosmonooit]

Thanks, a great documentary.

[@Pun2404]

These New Hollywood-era (1968-1980) stories are like catnip to me. Also, god bless Mia Farrow, what a class act she’s been throughout her entire performing career, between being Mrs Frank Sinatra, then being with Woody Allen (that’s its own can of worms, marrying his step daughter who he is still faithfully with decades later, even though it was weird overall). And as controversial as Polanski is, and how unredeemable his past action with a minor was, but between escaping the Nazis in Europe, having his wife and unborn child slaughtered ruthlessly in cold blood via Manson family, there is still no denying his obvious talent for storytelling through cinema. Hopefully he has grown to see the error of his past and has sought to make right since that debacle. All in all, Rosemary’s Baby is a timeless cinematic classic, and this was an informative and entertaining feature on the matter!

[@LivingLegendMe]

There was a clever error. The Scrabble tiles did not spell out the name of the book, which was supposed to warn Rosemary she was being controlled by witches. However, we were all so horrified by what she might discover, that it went for the most part totally unnoticed, just as Polanski knew it would.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

No, but in her growing awareness, she whispers the name. "All of them witches..."

[@LivingLegendMe]

@@willemvandeursen3105 Yes. It was quite terrifying.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

#RosemarysBaby is my FAVOURITE film of all time. I have seen it 50+ times, easily. I know all the continuity errors, too.

[@rainerkrause34]

Hi there, love that movie too, saw it more than a dozen times...Can you tell me the parts with the continuity errors? thanks...

[@romanclay1913]

Mia Farrow gets the Oscar, Bafta, Tony and Emmy for this performance..

[@davidroberts1026]

We all know the movie is great, but so is this look at the making of it--insightful, fascinating, and it leaves you (or at least me) wanting more.

[@padmasalam5267]

Mia is one of the best actress Hollywood has ever seen. She is extremely talented, natural, humble, meek and mild. She has always remained grounded, and for that she has my respect. I have always had a soft spot for her. I love her to bits. Mia, wherever you are tonight, I am sending you loads of 🤗 and kisses 😘. 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂.Cheers mate!!!!!!!

[@LMB222]

She's also a horrible person. Read what Moses Farrow (her adoptive son) writes about her, it's eye-opening.

[@wjglll340]

​@@LMB222She spanked him with a brush. Big whoop.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

She was an adequate actress, and little more than that. Professional (thanks to her parents, I assume). But Great she was only once-- in Rosemary's Baby. Not even her Woody Allen roles impressed me. I wonder if - conspiracy theory alert - Polanski didn't make a deal with the Devil... what he got out of Mia was almost supernatural!

[@tomaszskrzypiec5085]

no mention of Komeda's music? Vice please...

[@LMB222]

The music deserves another episode.

[@Majsz]

my fav movie of all time, thanks Vice!

[@friendsofzeuspodcast3252]

mia and robert evans are so fun to watch and listen to. also, evans. check out the 90s animated series if you can find out. Kid Notorious.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Yeah, but Evans didn’t know that Mia wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. How is that possible??

[@Vriess123]

Very interesting! Thanks. Eraserhead next!

[@TheTunao]

roman polansky is the 21 centuries greatest moviemaker. without doubt.

[@KimblerLewis]

TheTunao I'm a Kurbrick

[@Lospollos24]

Kimbler Lewis yeah

[@fiorellafenati5395]

he impression he made on me when it came out and I ran to see it (for Roman Polanski) has not abandoned me, Roman P is a genius who knows how to play on two tables, he combines humor with the depth of madness. I also liked The Pianist but I didn't hear his voice in that film. in any case Roman Polanski still seems like the boy from Knife in the Water, in the black and white Masurians.

[@merryweatherflowers]

John was perfectly chosen as he comes across as utterly self involved and a creep.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Ira Levin thought that Cassevetes over played his role. He thought that Cassevetes came off as creepy even in the opening scenes before he joins the cult.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@nicholasjanke3476 He was perfectly cast. He's boyish, moody, egocentric. Levin himself wrote a scene where the marriage gets rocky, and Rosemary takes a short break outside New York. But he is still not unsympathetic. That changes with the pregnancy.

[@charlesrobinson1637]

why didn't Mia Farrow win the Oscar for Rosemary's Baby ,the academy is full of shit ..

[@tracyweaver4687]

Charles - Hollywood is 100% Politics.

[@user-rx4sq5ds3j]

But Ruth Gordon won for best supporting actress for her role in the film.

[@kristyy420]

and Ruth Gordon was amazing. cant win em all

[@paulvoorhies8821]

She had to be nominated first. That Bob Evans doesn’t seem to know that fact is mind blowing. I agree that she should have been nominated.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@paulvoorhies8821 Hollywoods greatest blooper. But someone at Paramount goofed too.

[@lisalindsey277]

Love this movie and Ruth Gordon. Saw it when it first came out!

[@TheZurul]

1:41 classic Bob Evans sound

[@babyirene3188]

Freaking awesome.

[@elmadrista1298]

Goodbye Robert Evans. Rest peacefully 🌹

[@skreety0455]

Godbye, Mr. Chips! Peter O'Toole is adorable!

[@paulvoorhies8821]

He didn’t know that Farrow wasn’t nominated for an Oscar? How weird is that??

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Rosemary's baby is one of my favourite horror books/novels (I also love Audrey Rose, The Shining). It's one of the scariest horror films. I also like the sequel novel-Son of Rosemary (we need a film on that one!).

[@matthewinglis4108]

There a was a made for TV sequel called Look What Happened To Rosemary's Baby

[@johnappleby405]

Very good documentary fascinating interviews. A really great film from an excellent novel.

[@dougmac6803]

How absolutely prophetic was that scrabble scene with Mia Farrow and the murders😮😮😮

[@lolarites1]

I have wondered what it was with the color yellow.Was it just that it was the 60's and that color was popular or what there some other meaning to it. I would like to ask the set director about it. Also, in the dining scene. there is a silver covered entre on the dining table that is exactly like one I have. It gave me the chills to see it. I was pregnant with my first child when I read the book, in the spring of '68. The movie came out in August of '68. My baby was four months old when the movie opened. When I saw that ad with the baby carriage asking to pray for Rosemary's Baby, I was frozen with fright. And this is before I had actually seen the movie, although I had read the book. My middle daughter, much younger than the daughter that I had in '68, saw it in 2002 when she was around 15. I told her not to see it, it would give her nightmares. She said "oh, Mama, it won't scare me". I said "well, I warned you, go ahead." The next day, she said she had a terrible nightmare and it did indeed care her to death.

[@josephjohnson1794]

You're right. Rosemary did wear lots of yellow early on in the movie...maybe a sunny and happy color maybe before she was pregnant. She wore a lot of "Blessed Mother Blue"...light blue later in the movie. Scary story about your silver covered entre since it was an exact match.

[@bkynbiker19]

@@josephjohnson1794 It's not just her clothes, the walls, accent pieces, furniture etc... it's an ongoing theme, meant, I believe, to symbolize innocence and light and youthfulness

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@lolarites Reference to Catholicism. And Rosemary is a (lapsed) catholic. That made her perfect for the Catholic Satan. 😇

[@wolfstar675]

Polanski always had great female leads in his films.

[@avigoldfedder5000]

Specially those home movies and pool scenes.

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

@@avigoldfedder5000 haha! well said

[@justpeelintheonion8039]

top 5 of all time, thank you criterion and thank you VICE

[@Shady.Lady.]

Sold ! No where can I see Rosemary’s Baby?