Chinatown (1974)

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Aug 11 19:26

Chinatown is the best film noir ever made. There is no use in arguing with me on this one. Once you watch it, you will see that I am correct. Much like L.A. Confidential, it is loosely based on real life aspects of Los Angeles history. There really was a controversy about the water supply in the Los Angeles area, but it didn’t exactly play out like this. Jack Nicholson creates his best character and performance in this film as the sad, intelligent, and wise-assed detective Jake Gittes. Faye Dunaway is all neurotic twitches and off-beat beauty as Evelyn Mulwray, the woman who should be the femme fatale but is too fragile to truly be a threat. And, lastly but not least, there is John Huston as the charming, well spoken, and slightly frightening Noah Cross, Evelyn’s father. The climactic ...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Apr 22 22:20

"You're dumber than you think I think you are." This Roman Polanski effort is a true classic movie; Chinatown is an excellent, stylish, fascinating and gripping thriller that is based on the novel by Robert Towne. Cleverly, the film has been made in a very 1940's style - the acting, the score, even the credits. Suffice to say, the plot is a lot more complex than anything one would have seen in a movie released during the 40s. There isn't much I can reveal about the plot without the spoiling the whole thing, but I will try to write a brief outline. Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is a former policeman from Chinatown who is now a highly successful private investigator. A woman comes to him with a suspected case of marriage infidelity. While this seems like a very open-and-shut case of sim...Read more

Rating : 8/10