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This week Yasmin and I watch Rosemary\\u2019s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) and Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004), \\xa0two films about trapped women, pixie haircuts, beautiful New York apartments, stifling bourgeois social norms, and creepy children born of Satan. There\\u2019s plenty for us to chew on here\\u2014from architecture and occult power to deeply unsettling notions of childhood, death, and sexuality\\u2014as we consider how these films locate an atmosphere of dread and horror in the fantastic spaces of elite New York.