SESSION: Monday 31st August at 7:30pm


Rosemary’s Baby – 50th Anniversary

(1968, dir. Roman Polanski, w/ Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer)

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in an opulent but gothic building in Manhattan. Their landlord Edward "Hutch" Hutchins attempts to dissuade them from doing so: the building has an unsavory history. They discover that their neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a great deal of time with them. Strange things begin to happen: a young woman Rosemary meets in the laundry commits suicide, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have special plans for her child. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)

Chinatown

(1974, dir. Roman Polanski, w/ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez)

Chinatown will start at approximately 10:13pm, and finish at approximately 12:29am.

JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)