Thursday, June 14, 2018

Giving the Devil Its Due (Date)

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I want you to click on the above image and really take in the perfection of that shot from Rosemary's Baby - I was skipping around the film last night in order to grab some images of "Monumental Horror Images" to send my friend Sean who was doing a Twitter thread about that idea and when I started really basking in that shot for a minute I became obsessed. 
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There are eleven people in that frame up top (not including the devil baby in that crib) and they're all looking in different directions and experiencing that moment in different ways and yet our eye is relaxed and curious as it drifts about that stage. And at the same time everything points straight towards that black bassinet. All the shadows, all the lines. Wham.

Anyway as we noted earlier this week the film, my favorite, just turned 50 and over at The Film Experience the celebration's gotten that precise - three of us have split the movie into thirds and are live-blogging the experience of watching it. Last night the first third went up (see that here) and tonight comes my third - click over here to read my take on the middle portion of the movie, from Devil Impregnation to Good Ol' Boy Hutch's Funeral. It's an interesting patch of the movie  I'm glad I got to tackle, with several key sequences that you might be tempted to glance past at first but which are vital to the film's still awesome power.

Plus I get to rhapsodize about John Cassavetes a bunch.
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