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Chinatown

July 2024

  • Ask The Dust - 2006<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Bloomer/Paramount Classics/Kobal/Shutterstock (5885135q) Robert Towne Ask The Dust - 2006 Director: Robert Towne Paramount Classics USA On/Off Set Drama

    Robert Towne obituary

  • portrait of man wearing black shirt in front of taupe backdrop

    Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

June 2024

  • CHINATOWN<br>FAYE DUNAWAY &amp; JACK NICHOLSON ARTWORK Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSS73474 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?

    The 1974 noir boasts standout acting from Jack Nicholson and director Roman Polanski at peak form but it’s Robert Towne’s deft, intelligent script that takes breath away

January 2023

  • Faye Dunaway in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde

    Ranked
    Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!

    Ahead of the Oscar-winning actor’s 82nd birthday this weekend, we mark her finest moments, from camp histrionics to the most archetypal of femmes fatales

April 2020

  • Jack Nicholson as JJ Gittes in Chinatown

    The classic film I've never seen
    I’ve never seen … Chinatown

    Even if you’re already aware of the ending, the final moments of the ultimate sunshine noir can shock even the most hardened box-set veteran

October 2019

  • Robert Evans in his office in Beverly Hills, California in 1974. A life of excess eventually ruined his career.

    Robert Evans obituary

  • Robert Evans

    Robert Evans, celebrated Hollywood producer of Chinatown, dies aged 89

April 2018

  • 1975, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK<br>ANNE-LOUISE LAMBERT Film 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' (1975) 02 February 1975 CTG21776 Allstar/Cinetext/ATLANTIC **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

    My favourite film decade
    From Don't Look Now to The Godfather – why the 1970s is my favourite film decade

    While Jaws and Star Wars spawned the blockbuster, groundbreaking film-makers pushed cinema to the limits with edgy drama and sparkling comedy

February 2017

  • Robert Evans with Chinatown poster

    How Robert Evans changed movies for ever – and for the better

    With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul’s scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk about art, life and America

October 2016

  • ‘Duplex’ Film - 2003<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Miramax/Everett/REX/Shutterstock (433359d) ‘Duplex’ - Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Eileen Essel ‘Duplex’ Film - 2003

    Gentrified world
    From Notting Hill to Poltergeist: how Hollywood handles gentrification

    The tension of yuppies encroaching on downmarket neighbourhoods has long been food for two classic film genres, writes Peter Bradshaw – horror and satire

February 2016

  • Sacha Baron Cohen;Mark Strong<br>Mark Strong and Sacha Baron Cohen in Columbia Pictures' THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY. Grimsby film still

    Film blog
    Sacha Baron Cohen has trashed Grimsby – but these places had it far worse

    From the inescapable horrors of the Australian outback to dodgy Chinatowns the world over, here are the films the local tourist board would never want you to see

May 2015

  • In this photo taken Monday, May 18, 2015, Gino Celli inspects wheat nearing harvest on his farm near Stockton, Calif. Celli, who farms 1,500 acres of land and manages another 7,000 acres, has senior water rights and draws his irrigation water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta who have California's oldest water rights are proposing to voluntarily cut their use by 25 percent to avoid the possibility of even harsher restrictions by the state later this summer as the record drought continues.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

    California accepts historic offer by farmers to cut water usage by 25%

    In a twist not even imagined in the film Chinatown, the drought-stricken state accepts a voluntary offer from farmers who hope to stave off mandatory cuts

February 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for BAFTA Jack Nicholson

    Jack Nicholson's 1975 Bafta speech from the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – video

    After winning the best film actor Bafta for his roles in The Last Detail and Chinatown, Jack Nicholson performs a spectacular glass-smashing acceptance speech from the set (in Oregon) of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

December 2014

  • Director Roman Polanski

    Court denies Polanski's motion to dismiss 1977 statutory rape case

    Judge’s nine-page order says director’s claims of judicial misconduct cannot be addressed because he is a fugitive

August 2014

  • Chinatown

    My favourite city film is ... Chinatown

  • Roman Polanski

    Roman Polanski abandons film festival visit after 'paedophile' accusations

August 2013

  • Roman Polanski on set for Knife in the Water

    Roman Polanski at 80: the film-maker at work - in pictures

    A gallery of behind-the-scenes photos showing director Roman Polanski at work

January 2013

  • CHINATOWN<br>JACK NICHOLSON Character(s): J.J. 'Jake' Gittes Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSL45074 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.1111z@yx abcde 8 12

    Chinatown review – Roman Polanski’s superlative neo-noir is still unmissable

    Time has lessened our sense that this 1974 film is simply a pastiche of the classic 30s gumshoe thrillers – it now looks like a straightforward classic

December 2012

  • Repulsion

    The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films

    A world of cruelty, where men are cold-blooded and women cold-hearted … As the BFI begins a Roman Polanski retrospective – with extended runs of Repulsion and Chinatown – Leo Robson investigates the director's fascinating pathology

December 2011

  • CHINATOWN

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Chinatown

    Paul Macinnes continues our writer's favourite film series with the movie that left him chilled and overwhelmed – Roman Polanski's detective tale that exploded the genre conventions

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