another all time great
Chinatown (1974) Director: Roman Polanski
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
★★★★★
Chinatown is a Los Angeles noir murder mystery picture that comes down to us in the great American tradition of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Chinatown was part of the extraordinary, albeit brief, era of Robert Evans productions at Paramount, which also included movies like The Godfather. Written by Robert Towne, Chinatown has often been called the greatest screenplay ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams’ Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. Perhaps the film is to some extent Roman Polanski’s personal reflections on the decay and decline of our civilization; this was the first Hollywood film he made after the dark and tragic events that rocked his life five years prior when his 8 months pregnant wife…
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