★★★★★ Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning Chinatown (1974), starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, took the film noir in a whole new direction, subverting the American Dream into a bleak portrait of corporate America. Jack J. Gittes (Nicholson) is a Pi brought in to investigate an adultery case for a women he believes to be Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd), daughter to the La Water Company tycoon Noah Cross (John Huston) and wife to his partner Hollis (Darrell Zwerling). As the case develops, Jack becomes embroiled with the real Evelyn (Dunaway) in a tale of corruption, deceit and murder, that poetically deconstructs the tropes of the genre.
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- 1/3/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
When I wrote my review of the DVD, I groused that the .remastered in high definition. made you wonder where the Blu-ray was. Paramount has remedied that situation with the release of this classic modern noir onto the format. I guess they.ll only remind you to .Forget it. It.s Chinatown. if you complain about waiting so long. In the mid-1930s, Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd) to watch her husband Hollis (Darrell Zwerling) who she suspects is having an affair. Hollis works at the city of Los Angeles Water and Power and Jake trails Mulwray until he gets some seemingly incriminating photographs. He gives them to Mrs. Mulwray and...
- 4/2/2012
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
.'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.. .Forget it Jake. It.s Chinatown.. With Roman Polanski in the news, it may be difficult to separate the director from the film. Chinatown would be his last Hollywood film before going on the run. It.s a fantastic film, a classic, and now Paramount adds some new special features to the mix. In the mid-1930s, Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd) to watch her husband Hollis (Darrell Zwerling) who she suspects is having an affair. Hollis works at the city of Los Angeles Water and Power and Jake trails Mulwray until...
- 10/5/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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