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Rosemary's Baby (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] (1968)

Mia Farrow , John Cassavetes , Roman Polanski  |  R |  Blu-ray
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Product Details

  • Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
  • Directors: Roman Polanski
  • Format: NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen, Color
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: The Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: October 30, 2012
  • Run Time: 136 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008MPQ0G8
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,815 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Special Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • New interviews with Polanski, actor Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
  • Komeda, Komeda, a feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
  • 1997 radio interview with author Ira Levin from Leonard Lopate’s WNYC program New York and Company on the 1967 novel, the sequel, and the film
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park and Levin’s afterword for the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel, in which he discusses its and the film’s origins

  • Editorial Reviews

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

    Customer Reviews

    The print is nicely restored with a quality transfer. darkcities  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
    One of Polanski's best films. J. Wingenfeld  |  12 reviewers made a similar statement
    Most Helpful Customer Reviews
    24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars All Of Them Witches! October 31, 2012
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    Rosemary's Baby is my favorite horror film of all time. Its got it all: a genius director, marvelous actors, a haunting tale, spooky neighbors, dastardly witches, and, of course, Satan. The film revolves around a young woman named Rosemary Woodhouse. Rosemary and her husband are expecting a child. But Rosemary doesn't look so good. Rosemary is starting to believe that she has been impregnated by evil itself, and everyone she knows might be in on it. As a thriller it works on a level Hitchcock only hinted at. Its a film that surpasses masterpiece and classic, and rests snug atop the terrain of legend.

    It was once a venial sin to watch this film, condemned by the Catholic Church and the Legion Of Decency, now you can own it in glorious High-Definition, with a genial satisfaction only Criterion could bestow.

    This film only gets creepier and creepier with time. There are several different ways to watch this film. And this film, in turn, tries to tell us many several different things. As film scholar David J. Skal points out in his fantastic book 'The Monster Show':

    "Whether Levin's strategy was conscious or not, the plot of Rosemary's Baby was a brilliant metaphorical distillation of the widespread ambivalence and anxiety over sex and reproduction, concerns overshadowed by the garish glare of the swinging sixties. On a simplistic level, both Rosemary and the reader share lingering doubts about the chemical-occult tinkering of their reproductive systems. Rosemary drinks the stinking tannis-root cocktail that her neighbor provides while the reader(likely) swallows the magic candy of birth-control pills. Neither has a deep understanding of the effects of either substance on their bodies and their lives; they rely trustingly on patriarchal authority.
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    9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pray for Rosemary's Baby. November 2, 2012
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    Traditionally, this has been my favorite movie and probably holds that position for the longest amount of time. Over the years, other films have come and gone and even some of Polanski's other films have stolen the top spot. I admire his entire body of work, but after viewing the BD version of this film there is no doubt that once again Rosemary's Baby is definitely my favorite Polanski film.

    The BD quality of this disc manages to still retain the gritty look of the original film print while delivering a significant improvement from previous DVD transfers. The problem with many BDs these days is that some of the essence is lost. It all looks digital now. Everything is too sharp, too crisp, too "perfect" but with this transfer, you can still see film grain, slight imperfections in sharpness that give a resonating feeling of uneasiness and perhaps a vintage sort of rustic quality. Another great improvement is the richness and depths of the colors and contrast of the film. Some of the "blooming" effects of overexposure are minimized. More details can be picked up. The nuances of the wallpaper, the trinkets in the Castavet's house, the chunks of tanis root. This film is brilliant!

    The supplemental documentary offers interviews with Farrow, Polanski, and Evans. This is different from the Paramount DVD, some of the same content is included, some is left out, but there is plenty more that has been added. I have read many books on Polanski, interviews, and different essays on the film and still have been given new insight into the film and what went into it. A very worthwhile supplement, indeed. The other is a bit about long time collaborator who did the score, and yet another with the author of the book Ira Levin.
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    6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars A thinking persons horror story November 2, 2012
    No great special effects, no buckets of blood, hell not even jump out of your seat scares, really. So after reading that sentence you might say, "What's the point of watching a horror movie if all that is true?". Oh, dear friend, a horror movie can have so much more then just blood and cheap scares.
    Rosemary's Baby is the type of horror that creepys up on you bit by bit, you start to piece everything together, you start to feel, yes really feel for this Rosemary girl, in a horror story no less. You begin ever so slowly to feel very uncomfortable about those people she meets, and you're sure there has to be something wrong with that baby, and you know what it is and you're almost sure how it will end, but you keep rooting for this Rosemary girl.

    Rosemary is a new bride and she and her husband are making that first big step that comes with marriage, they buy a house, an apartment actually. In what looks like Dracula's hotel. There she does all the things that a newly wed bride does, at least in the 60's: paint, decorate, contact-paper the kitchen shelves, etc. She doesn't work outside the home, being a wife is her job, and she does it well. Her husband is an actor, with bit parts here and there but nothing steady. She even befriends another woman in her age group that lives there, and she has her nosey neighbors(they actually ask you what you pay for stuff!!). Everything seems fine, and normal, right? Right? So what, you some times hear chanting next door, or that your new friend threw herself from a window, you're out in the real world now and things happen.

    I find that this movie is actually about Rosemary's leap into modern day feminism or at least trying to make that leap.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of Polanski's finest films!
    I 've just watched the Criterion Collection 4K Transfer Blu-ray of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and loved it. The restored film looks really great. Read more
    Published 2 days ago by Manuel Sanchez
    5.0 out of 5 stars A horror classic done better from Criterion!
    Newlywed couple Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) have just moved into a New York City complex apartment building. Read more
    Published 1 month ago by John Lindsey
    5.0 out of 5 stars rosemary,s baby
    I,think that this is a great movie.I saw this movie years ago and I still thank it is a wonderfull movie to see. Read more
    Published 1 month ago by james brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top ten favorite movies, one of my favorite horror flicks
    When it comes to horror I always prefer the psychological. I haven't delved into the special features, the next time I feel like giving it another watch I'll probably go through... Read more
    Published 1 month ago by DaveAvenger
    5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful classic
    Criterion once again surpasses expectation in releasing this classic horror. A must-have for the film's fans, but for others, dive in to rich extras to get insight on the film. Read more
    Published 1 month ago by Nauval Yazid
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the scariest movies ever made, and it gets scarier with every...
    Criterion's release of this horror classic is perfect. Instead of commissioning new artwork, they have opted to use the original poster art. Read more
    Published 1 month ago by J. Wingenfeld
    5.0 out of 5 stars Shazam! A rare event.
    Very very occasionally there is an alignment of talents and arts that make a brilliant product - this is one of those moments. Read more
    Published 2 months ago by Ian Muldoon
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best
    It is very hard not to like this film!
    Ira Levin wrote an almost perfect story of evil in modern times. Read more
    Published 2 months ago by James W. Durney
    5.0 out of 5 stars A+ blu-ray release
    I had the DVD version of this film, and although that version was acceptable for a viewing experience, this Criterian edition blows the DVD out of the water. Read more
    Published 3 months ago by Jeffrey P. Falcon
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Polansky movies.
    Polansky on Criterion finally a transfer worth of this great movie director what else should be said about this great movie.
    Published 3 months ago by Richard Collard
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