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William Mulholland Gave Water to LA and Inspired ‘Chinatown’
Jon Wilkman
The Daily Beast
2·28·2016
When Films Were Kings
John J. Healey
Alta
9·29·2020
What’s the Big Deal?: Chinatown
Eric D Snider
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
5·18·2010
Water on Film: Chinatown
Katrina Price
Water and Society
There’s corruption in Los Angeles’s water department and private detective Jake Gittes sticks his nose where he shouldn’t-literally.
Robert Hatch
The Nation
12·16·2008
The Perfect Film Score
Terry Teachout
The Wall Street Journal
7·10·2009
The Last Noir: “Chinatown”
Ho Lin
Camera Roll
3·5·2011
The Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale in Chinatown
Kristina Garvin
Articulāte, Volume 6, Article 5 Denison University 2001
The Complicated History Of The Classic Neo-Noir Film ‘Chinatown’
David Folkenflik
On Point
2·7·2020
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Sam Wasson
The Sunday Times
2·2·2020
Style in Film: Faye Dunaway in Chinatown
Classiq
11·28·2014
Story of the scene: ‘Chinatown’ Roman Polanski
Roger Clarke
The Independent
5·2·2008
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ is one of the most impressive works of the period, an amazing experience from all angles
Cinephilia & Beyond
Robert Towne looks back on ‘Chinatown’
Brian D. Johnson
Maclean’s
10·7·2009
Robert McKee introduces Chinatown
Uploaded by VHS Video vault
Created by Filmworks season, broadcast 2nd April 1994
5·3·2016
Rape, power and Polanski’s “Chinatown”
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon
10·13·2019
Polanski’s Farewell to America
Stefan Hedmark
Thrill Me Softly
8·3·2015
Noir Meets the Family Melodrama
Ron Hogan
tor.com
8·16·2011
My sister! My daughter!’ and other tales of ‘Chinatown’
Todd Leopold
CNN
9·29·2009
My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film
Mark Horowitz
The New York Times
2·12·2020
My favourite film: Chinatown
Paul MacInnes
The Guardian
12·26·2011
Movies I Love (and so can you): Chinatown
Created by Movies I Love (and so can you)
7·15·2014
More than just the best screenplay ever written
Ian Anthony Brownell
The Film 5000 Project
Jackin’ It: The Sexy, Mysterious Star of ‘Chinatown’
Becky Belzile
Audiences Everywhere
4·18·2017
Jack Nicholson, a murder and water rights
J. Patrick Coolican
The Las Vegas Sun
1·7·2013
J.J. Gittes’ Sandy 3-Piece Suit in Chinatown
Nick
BAMF Style
7·31·2013
In a Never-Before-Published Interview, Robert Evans Talks ‘Chinatown’: ‘We Weren’t Sure If We Had a Disaster on our Hands’
Paul Iorio
Los Angeles Magazine
10·29·2019
I’ve never seen … Chinatown
Graeme Virtue
The Guardian
4·9·2020
How Jack Nicholson persuaded Faye Dunaway to star alongside him in Chinatown
Sam Wasson
GQ
3·19·2020
Forget it Bob, it’s Chinatown: Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
Alex Simon
The Hollywood Interview
2·2·2013
Exploring The Greatest Screenplay of All Time
Created by Jacks Movie Reviews
8·1·2018
Examining ‘Chinatown’
Rachel Tsang
Sunset Boulevard
5·27·2015
Evil Under the Sun: John Huston in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant
8·15·2006
Evil Under the Sun: John Huston in Chinatown
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant
8·15·2006
Evil and Heroism in Chinatown
Created by Eyebrow Cinema
1·8·2018
Everything’s Jake
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
Essay: On ‘Chinatown’
R.D. Heath
The New York Times
6·13·2002
Described by its director as a “traditional detective story with a new, modern shape,” this 1930s thriller garnered 11 Academy Award nominations
John A. Alonzo, ASC
American Cinematographer
2·25·2019
Criticwire Classic of the Week: Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’
Vikram Murthi
IndieWire
8·20·2015
Criminally Overrated: Chinatown
Drew Hunt
Spectrum Culture
6·25·2014
Commentary: Can L.A. escape the cage of ‘Chinatown’?
Joe Mathews
The Desert Sun
8·16·2020
Chinatown’s Historical Mystery
Matthias Stork, Ph.D.
Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform
10·31·2013
Chinatown’ Critics’ Picks
Created by The New York Times
2·23·2010
Chinatown’ Begins as an Archetypal Private Detective Story; It Ends as a Definitive One
Jesse Hassenger
Pop Matters
4·5·2012
Chinatown’ analysis -The film’s symbolism finally explained
Created by The Godfather Of Cinema
5·6·2018
Chinatown: The Real Story That Inspired The Movie
Cathal Gunning
Screen Rant
9·26·2020
Chinatown: the best crime film of all time
Philip French
The Guardian
5·17·2010
Chinatown: The Awful Truth
Tom J. Carlisle
Reverse Shot
7·23·2006
Chinatown: As Much as Possible
Tony Macklin
tonymacklin.net
12·20·2008
Chinatown: A Greek Tragedy
Created by Filmscalpel
9·20·2015
Chinatown: 10 Reasons It’s The Best Film Noir Movie Ever Made
Angelo Delos Trinos
Screen Rant
1·15·2020
Chinatown, review: ‘hardbitten’
Alastair Sooke
The Telegraph
4·17·2015
Chinatown Other places, other times
James Kavanagh
Jump Cut
Jump Cut, no. 3, 1974, pp. 1, 8
Chinatown Is the Story of White Supremacy and Gentrification in L.A.
Jonny Coleman
LA Weekly
6·20·2017
Chinatown Is the Greatest Film of All Time
Sean Nelson
The Stranger
4·14·2005
Chinatown – a classic soundtrack from a master craftsman, Jerry Goldsmith
Sean Wilson
Mfiles
Best Screenplay Ever?
Carson Reeves
Script Shadow
2·17·2011
Best Coast Bleakness: Five L.A. Neo-Noirs to Watch Right Now
Manuela Lazic
The Ringer
4·17·2019
A revisited film-noir in color with Chinatown
Stanley Bloom
Velvet Eyes
7·6·2017
A Pessimist’s Vision of the World
Raag Be
The Artifice
6·7·2014
A Flaw in the Iris: Son of Griff on Chinatown’s Hard-Boiled Historicism
Sam "Burgundy Suit" Scott
The Solute
5·15·2019
A Flaw in the Eye: Race, Male Toxicity and the Enduring Impact of Polanski’s Chinatown
Amy Glynn and Garrett Hongo
Paste
12·21·2017
6 Reasons Why “Chinatown” Is The Best Neo-Noir Movie Ever
Robert Popa
Taste of Cinema
12·27·2019
5 Things You Might Not Know About Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’
Oliver Lyttelton
IndieWire
6·20·2012
20 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Chinatown
Peter Gerstenzang
Esquire
6·23·2014
12 Nosy Facts About Chinatown
Eric D Snider
Mental Floss
8·27·2015
10 Movies Inspired By Roman Polanski’s Chinatown
Angelo Delos Trino
Screen Rant
1·8·2020
10 best neo-noir films of all time: From Chinatown to LA Confidential
The Independent
3·11·2019
“It’s Chinatown” Preliminary Test Clips
Created by Filmumentaries - Jamie Benning
4·24·2014
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown”
Richard T. Jameson
Parallax View
Movietone News 33, July 1974
10·10·2008
“Forget it Jake, it’s…” Chinatown (1974) – Celebrating 45 years of Roman Polanski’s Classic Film-Noir
Skye Wingfield, Steve Amos, Bill Scurry
The Film ‘89 Podcast
Ep.32
7·25·2019
“Do as little as possible” Polanski’s Message and Manipulation
Murray Sperber
Jump Cut
Jump Cut, no. 3, 1974, pp. 9-10
“We’re seeing him literally transform as someone who actually gives a shit.”
Paul Scheer, Amy Nicholson
Unspooled
Ep.51
4·24·2019
“The statement beneath the whole of noir was never spoken more clearly than on the streets of Chinatown…”
Anders Nelson
Just Press Play
4·3·2012
“The film obsessively swirls around the theme of water…”
Baynard Woods
The Baltimore Sun
6·10·2014
“Polanski not only wielded a knife as an actor but even more so as a director.”
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
“Mulwray turns out to be a nerdy middle-aged man.”
Brian Koller
Films Graded
12·14·2012
“It’s really an amazing performance from Dunaway.”
Steven Flores
Surrender to the Void
11·15·2010
“It’s as close to film perfection as you’ll be able to find.”
John Gilpatrick
John Likes Movies
1·21·2010
“It’s an homage that is better than the movies it pays tribute.”
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress
6·16·2010
“Initially cold and intimidating, Evelyn soon transforms into someone we root for…”
George S
Suntory Times
8·8·2019
“I think the script is a must-read, the film a must-watch.”
Paul Graunke
Medium
9·8·2014
“I like that Gittes is so ineffectual…”
Dustin Sells, Arthur Gordon, Dalton Stuart
Good Trash Genre Cast
Ep.311
“Evil wins here… it gets everything.”
Shannon Scott Clute, Richard L. Edwards
Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir
Ep.24
5·31·2006
“Evelyn whose birthmark, “a flaw in the iris” represents the heart of darkness in the film.”
Angie Errigo
Empire
1·1·2000
“Evelyn is clearly lying about what she knows…”
Ericca Long, Cole Roulain
The Magic Lantern
Ep.083
8·12·2018
“Conspiracy, incest, and murder…”
Cole Smithey
colesmithey.com
2·1·2009
“Chinatown is among the darkest of Southern California tales…”
Shaun Huston
Pop Matters
11·17·2009
“Can a man have both sexual and social power?”
Norman Holland
A Sharper Focus
“A motion picture does not have to be in black-and-white for shadows to play an important part…”
James Berardinelli
Reelviews
“A film so keenly aware of its classical roots.”
Max Baril, Ted Walch
Classic Movie Musts
Ep.63
5·17·2019
“…web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption…”
Ben Russell
The Movie Man
11·7·2012
“…unexpected layers of complexity and evil.”
Chris Nashawaty
Entertainment Weekly
4·3·2012
“…to save the good and punish the evil – ultimately fail in the metaphoric…”
Tim Dirks
AMC Filmsite
“…this movie actually could have been made in the 1940s.”
Roger Ebert
rogerebert.com
6·1·1974
“…they’re so ignorant of Chinese culture that they often stir up more trouble than they repair…”
Peter Hanson
Every 70s Movie
2·7·2011
“…the swindles and corruption and capers of the latterday pioneers rank with the worst in municipal rape.”
A.D. Murphy
Variety
6·19·1974
“…someone has turned up dead with his lungs full of water…”
Steve Morrissey
Movie Steve
“…some of the vilest behaviour imaginable.”
Graeme Clark
The Spinning Image
“…snazzy suits, slicked-back hair and devilish grin…”
Youssef Kdiry
MoonStar Film Reviews
“…photographing people having sex with people not their spouses…”
Michael 5000
Infinite Art Tournament
3·30·2010
“…most potent cinematic metaphor for the heart of evil in the center of every film noir.”
JB
F This Movie!
6·17·2014
“…it now looks like a straightforward classic…”
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
1·3·2013
“…is Jake doing the right thing…”
C. Derick Varn, Steven A. Michalkow
Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers
Ep.5
5·17·2014
“…intra‐family hankypanky, climaxing in Los Angeles’s Chinatown.”
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
6·21·1974
“…incest, and corruption that are all related to the city’s water supply.”
Mark Walker
Marked Movies
“…he plies his trade in the seedy underbelly of society…”
J.D.
Radiator Heaven
12·6·2015
“…corruption and dark cityscape in the 1970s is perfectly captured…”
Nicole Goldstein
Medium
2·23·2016
“…a world of greed, extortion, unlawful carnality, and brutal violence.”
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
“…a warning against the ubiquity of corruption…”
Glenn Heath Jr. and Michael Nordine
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
2·1·2011
“…a treatise on the endurance of evil.”
David N. Meyer
Film Noir of The Week
9·14·2007
“…a traditional noir and a non-conventional one.”
Bill Thompson
Bill’s Movie Emporium
3·8·2009
‘Chinatown’: The Twisted Characters Behind a Hollywood Masterpiece
Nathan S. Webster
The Daily Beast
2·16·2020
‘Chinatown’ a stunning display of unfathomable decadence
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