Roman Polanski season at City Screen

Part mystery, part film noir, it stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston in Polanski’s most accomplished and accessible film, which was inspired by the disputes over land and water rights that raged in southern California during the 1910s and 1920s.

On March 31, Rosemary’s Baby (18) will be introduced at 2.30pm by occult expert Gavin Baddeley.

Polanski’s ambiguous, darkly comic Satanic thriller, based on Ira Levin’s bestseller, casts Mia Farrow as the Manhattan mother who comes to suspect there is something very wrong with her unborn child.

The season ends on April 8 at 6.30pm with Polanski’s first feature, 1962’s Knife In The Water (PG), the only one he made in his native Poland.

A simple storyline – an arrogant journalist and his wife pick up a young hitch-hiker and invite him to join them on their yacht – provides the framework for a study of sexual rivalry.

The season began earlier this week with Repulsion, Polanski’s first English-language film, in which Catherine Deneuve plays a young Belgian woman whose mind and emotions crack under the pressure of nightmares and fantasies when she is left alone in a Kensington bedsit.

Tickets can be booked on 0871 902 5726 or picturehouses.co.uk/york