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#1 2010-10-12 08:30:52
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'Rosemary's Baby'
A movie my wife refused to watch twice. Mr. Gaul reminded me of it earlier, when he mentioned the Dakota; and I know John Cs look has cropped up in discussions in the past. A chambray shirt at the beginning, was it? Great NY City atmosphere.
#2 2010-10-12 09:47:01
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
JC looks amazing throughout. Mid 60s Summer NYC Ivy to a t. Candy stripe seersucker and white sneakers, v neck sweaters and narrow cord trousers. Someone should design a season of Ivy threads around it. JS?
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#3 2010-10-12 09:53:09
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
Yes! He's also great in The Killers...
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#4 2010-10-12 10:58:32
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
Jesus, are you all now trying to claim that Satan is Ivy....?
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#5 2010-10-12 12:09:02
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
It was, I think, Polanski's first American film; he wanted to get the details spot on. I do remember a scene in which Guy tells Rosemary about a shirt he's bought: advertised in 'Esquire' if memory serves me well (which it probably doesn't). Cassavetes always had a great look to him. Even in 'The Dirty Dozen'.
#6 2010-10-17 03:40:34
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
Watch almost any American film from ten or twelve years later. The collars on Dennis Franz's shirt in the really rather woeful 'Dressed To Kill'. Or was the character supposed to look/be a prick? Yes, I suppose he was. Maybe style in film-making and style in dressing went ppfftt at around the same time.
#7 2021-09-27 10:01:25
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
After mentioning Perkins earlier, then 'Carnal Knowledge', a bump for this. JC did look the business.
#8 2021-09-27 10:03:13
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Wonderful outfits and shots of vintage NY. But the film itself is otherwise a bit dire.
some sort of banal legitimacy
#9 2021-09-27 10:15:36
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Re: 'Rosemary's Baby'
I read somewhere that the part was offered to Robert Redford first. I just see the film as a black comedy, Polanski taking the piss out of the novel perhaps.