The Definitive Romantic Comedies: 40-31
Welcome back to the Definitive List, where for the inaugural …
Welcome back to the Definitive List, where for the inaugural …
Occasionally older, strong-willed women creep into the sex-saturated narrative of …
Featuring a closely-coiffed Mia Farrow as the soft-spoken, childlike Rosemary Woodhouse, potential mother to the devil; John Cassavetes, post-Shadows, and just about to truly kick off his great directorial run; and the inimitable Ruth Gordan as a sort of Grace Zabriskie-precursor: the creepy neighbor next door, heavily made-up and eerily meddlesome, Rosemary’s Baby picks up the paranoid thread of 1965’s Repulsion. The film also anticipates the similarly – though more political – claustrophobic suspicion of Alan Pakula’s 1970’s films.
It is not too shabby in what the Northeast (New …
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