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Bret Easton Ellis recommended Rosemary's Baby (1968) in Movies (curated)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

1968 | Classics, Horror, Mystery

8.3

(34 Ratings)

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"A perfect horror film and, except for one bloody mess glimpsed early on and a few sexy scratches from Satan himself, no blood spilled. The movie builds dread with its narrative, but amplified by Polanski’s masterful technique, it becomes effortlessly menacing. The movie is still riveting and suspenseful after multiple viewings, maybe because it’s anchored in reality and so beautifully simple—the horror is played out within the realities of a modern marriage in late-’60s Manhattan and the “God is dead” movement. Second only to Chinatown in Polanski’s oeuvre."

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Carrie Fisher recommended Middlemarch in Books (curated)

Middlemarch

Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry

6.3

(4 Ratings)

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"One of the greatest books ever written by a woman, especially in those early days. Although Mary Anne Evans gave herself a male pen name, she showed incredible ambition and scope in her writing—the world she created, the characters she imagined. I love that line in the book that reads: “The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” It was hard to be a woman in those days, but her storytelling was exceptional."

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