Chinatown
A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
29 January 1931, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1912, Monterey County, California, USA
1916, New York City, New York, USA
17 December 1923, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
14 May 1926, Los Angeles County, California, USA
2 April 1904, New York, New York, USA
3 February 1909
2 May 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 February 1927, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
10 July 1962, USA
7 March 1909, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 19, 1907 in Hawaii, USA
31 May 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
June 28, 1886
14 November 1932, Newhall, California, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
19 March 1906, Tampa, Florida, USA
2 August 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 August 1912, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
November 24, 1903 in Azores, Portugal
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
22 July 1929, New York City, New York, USA
January 04, 2013
Polanski's telling of his tale of corruption in LA is masterly - thrilling, humorous and disturbing at the same time - and brilliantly played by John Huston and Faye Dunaway as well as Nicholson.
January 03, 2013
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
January 03, 2013
Unmissable.
February 04, 2014
Chinatown is deliciously, intolerably cruel as it toys with us.
February 09, 2006
The hard-boiled private eye coolly strolls a few steps ahead of the audience.
May 18, 2016
As private investigator Jake Gittes, hired to dig up some dirt on Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer of Los Angeles's water department, Nicholson saunters round the city delivering one-liners with offhand brilliance.
August 05, 2003
In 1974 a director, a screenwriter, and a producer (Robert Evans, who for once deserves a few of the plaudits he's apportioned himself) could decide to beat a genre senseless and then dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy.
March 27, 2009
Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.
January 05, 2013
This film is flawless.
March 27, 2009
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim.
May 20, 2003
A new private-eye melodrama that celebrates not only a time and a place (Los Angeles) but also a kind of criminality that to us jaded souls today appears to be nothing worse than an eccentric form of legitimate private enterprise.
January 18, 2013
As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.
