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Chinatown
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez View AllCrew
Roman Polanski (Director), Robert Towne (Screenplay) View All
Release: Jun. 20th, 1974
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes
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Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
Yeesh...tough to stomach this one, especially the ending.
Great film, but probably not one I'll be watching very often.
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Lightning Poll: Chinatown vs. The Graduate
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Daniel M
In his initial scenes he seems fairly normal but there are dark menacing undertones that make us feel early on that Jake may be in way over his head, but by the end we realise he is one of the most evil and unlikable villains in film history.
mark f
The scene where the "real" Evelyn Mulwray shows up is a classic where Gittes talks about "contemplating the moon", but it introduces many of the concepts of Film Noir into modern film usage.
Citizen Rules
Luckily for film noir buffs, the 1980s & 1990s brought a new fresh style to film noir that no longer was emulating what had been done before.
