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	Chinatown (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Chinatown is a name for an urban region containing a large population of Chinese humans within a non-Chinese society.
		Chinatown (MBTA station), a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts
		Chinatown, My Chinatown, a 1910 song written with lyrics by William Jerome and music by Jean Schwartz, which has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Muggsy Spanier, and many others, and is considered a standard of Dixieland music
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown_(disambiguation) (157 words)

	Chinatown (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polański featuring many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama.
		Chinatown was released in the heyday of the New Hollywood era, and at the time was considered a homage to the film noir genre, especially since its cast included John Huston, who directed several noir films, particularly The Maltese Falcon.
		Finally, the tragic ending to the film, though reminiscent of The Maltese Falcon in the separation of the detective and the femme fatale, provides a dramatic departure from classic film noir in the triumph of the forces of evil, Noah Cross, over the forces of good, Evelyn (and to some extent, Gittes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown_(film) (3108 words)

	Chinatown - Film Review
		Chinatown is a detective story, and although the loose ends are wrapped up in one pivotal scene towards the end, there is no closure, for the villain is too powerful to indict.
		Chinatown is a film replete with mysteries and loose ends, but the most shocking revelation comes towards the end.
		A late gangster film, Chinatown adopts a reprisal of film noir.
	members.tripod.com /Ztazia/chinatown.html (695 words)

	Chinatown Now, mp3, dvd, movies, new movies, independent movies, top ten dvd, allergies, China
		Narration: "Now Chinatown" is a story about an immigrant, whose accidental meeting with a white young man creates within her an interest and need for the world outside Chinatown.
		Steven wants to use this film to communicate the theme that no matter what race you are, as long as you have the courage to try out new things, then life will have unlimited possibilities.
		Lianne: The film for this character is a process of internal struggles, a process of self discovery, a process of telling oneself to look for a new life.
	www.nowchinatown.com /broadcstpressNOWCHINATOWN.html (1020 words)

	CHINATOWN - DVD
		A film professor of mine was showing us an episode of a third-rate Canadian anthology series he had directed in which the main character wounded his hand.
		Gittes, who left his position with the D.A. in Chinatown because he couldn't tell the good guys apart from the bad, discovers, at story's end, that the rest of the world might be equally corrupt.
		Aside #2: Chinatown includes what is only the third or fourth animated menu from Paramount, and its accompanying music is in 5.1.) Each player admits to behind-the-scenes strife, but the supplement isn't thorough enough to flesh out the inception of a masterpiece.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/chinatown.htm (882 words)

	Chinatown (1974)
		The film is a skillful blend of mystery, romance, suspense, and hard boiled detective/film noir genre elements - especially embodied in The Maltese Falcon (1941) (by director John Huston who acts in this film) and The Big Sleep (1946).
		Although the film audience and Jake's operatives are aware of the woman (by the camera's angle), Jake is the last to learn of her presence.
		In the rear of the palatial house is a fish pond and fountain - a strange anomaly in the midst of a drought.
	www.filmsite.org /chin.html (3702 words)

	Amazon.de: Chinatown (BFI Film Classics (Paperback)): Bücher: Michael Eaton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, written by Robert Towne, produced by Robert Evans, and starring Jack Nicholson, is a lush, mysterious, thrilling work whose influence still resonates in movies as different as L.A. Confidential and The Big Lebowski.
		Breaking with interpretative tradition, Eaton displays sympathy for Jake Gittes, the film's hero, characterizing him as a man trapped in a detective plot turned on its head, a world where "it is better not to act, much better not to know" the truth.
		This study analyzes "Chinatown" in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0851705324 (580 words)

	The Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s: Paranoid Time - Article - Stylus Magazine
		The film is less a response to any one political event than it is a generalized commentary on the erosion of privacy and individuality in American society.
		Chinatown functions in part as a response to those who might argue that institutional corruption and political deception are relatively recent developments.
		All power is essentially tied together, the film suggests, to the point where even a man as rich and powerful as the President’s father (John Huston, in a masterfully grotesque performance) is trapped by the crooks and corporate interests he associates with.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1092 (3492 words)

	Movie Review - Chinatown - eFilmCritic
		Any film critic, amateur or otherwise, will probably tell you that the hardest films to review are the average films, or those that are neither particularly good or bad.
		Polanksi floods the film, in bright, unceasing sunlight, but this is far from a sunny, picturesque, cinematic view of an age where everything was more innocent.
		Despite having a mere two scenes, his hulking form throughs a shadow over the film, and it's only by the end that we realise just how vile this guy is. If Polanksi's LA is a rotting corpse, Cross is the cancerous maggot burrowed deep in the centre of it.
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=4974 (890 words)

	Chinatown: The Film Noir 'net
		Chinatown (1974) is an original screenplay by Robert Towne that started out at nearly 250 pages (twice as long as the film).
		Although a brilliant neo-noir film that paid open homage to Dashiell Hammett (Gittes bears numerous similarities to Sam Spade), James M. Cain (whose characters are rarely moral), Raymond Chandler (it is his Los Angeles in which the action transpires), and others, there is a major diversion from prototypical films: Evelyn Mulwray.
		Polanski filmed her by holding the camera very close to her face, which made even the experienced and talented actress unduly jumpy.
	bernardschopen.tripod.com /chinatown.html (873 words)

	Chinatown (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But one film in particular stood out from all the rest and it shows why that was one of AFI's 100 top films of all time.
		Faye Dunaway steals the picture with a haunting performance as the film's alluring female fatale,and John Huston,as her creepy millionaire father,will make your skin crawl.
		"Chinatown" was the apex of what the cinema of the 1970's was about to become,and this was the prime factor of that as well.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0071315 (541 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Everyman in Chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		...has there been for years a film that used a 30's (or 20's, or 40's) setting which seemed so naturally right for its story, and with so little sense of pushing period at you...
		...Chinatown, where the hero once found himself stationed while on the police force (before the events of the film have begun) and where he became involved in some obscure disaster, is, as he says, a place where you can't understand what's happening...
		...What, rather, Chinatown has perceived is that one cannot make the private-eye genre work again (chiefly because of changed assumptions about the character and morality of the detective hero) by updating it, by making it "relevant," but only by keeping it at a distance...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V58I3P72-1.htm (2493 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Chinatown
		It was the film that created a whole new genre — menacing situations, cigarettes, darkness and shadows, priceless objects, guns, femmes fatales, betrayal and murder all formed part of film noir.
		One of the most impressive sequences in the film was the infamous scene in which a small thug (an unpredictable cameo by Roman Polanski) cuts Gittes’ nose with a flick knife.
		Ever-engaging, superbly acted and phenomenally directed, Chinatown is a richly rewarding experience that has managed to successfully pass the test of time and still stand as one of the greatest films of all time.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=284398 (1691 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, dvd review
		Chinatown opens in the office of private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) where Curly (Burt Young) is weeping and examining photographs of his wife engaged in coitus with another man. He tosses the photos over his shoulder and collapses against the Venetian blinds.
		Chinatown was made by producer Robert Evans, who was the head of Paramount during some very good years that included The Godfather (1972).
		Chinatown is technically superior as well, thanks to the cinematographer, director, and composer.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /chinatown.shtml (1070 words)

	Pomona College Magazine :: PCM Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		“Counterculture” films from the 1960s exposed and excoriated corruption; to Kael, Chinatown and its ilk seemed instead to shrug their shoulders and sigh, “Eh, you’ll have this.” Kael wrote, “Polanski may leave the story muddy and opaque, but he shoves the rot at you, and large numbers of people seem to find it juicy.
		Oddly, her initial “read” on the film carefully avoided its most remarkable moment, a scene that 30 years and untold viewings later remains as arresting as it was in 1974.
		Towne has celebrated Chinatown’s 30th birthday with special screenings and discussions of the film in conjunction with Pomona alumnus Bob Basset ’63, dean of Chapman University’s Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and Pomona College’s Alumni Relations program.
	www.pomona.edu /Magazine/PCMSP05/FSchinatown.shtml (1590 words)

	Now Chinatown review
		The strength of this film lies in the fact that it is not a love story of two people from wildly different cultures.
		The film centers on the definite pecking order in established immigrant enclaves and the societal hierarchy that quickly puts people in their place.
		In one tender moment of the film's most difficult scene, the Empress invites Lee and the busboy to sit at the table with the restaurant owner and guests, reminding everyone that they too are Chinese and should be allowed to join the banquet thrown in the honor of the Assistant Deputy Consul (Lo Ming).
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/nowchinatown.html (592 words)

	Funeral Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Probably the largest procession ever seen in San Francisco's Chinatown was that of Tom Kim Yung (1858- 1903), military attache to the Chinese delegation to the United States.
		Chinatown, a one-hour documentary aired in 1997, was produced by San Francisco's public television station, KQED.
		The show tells "the story of a neighborhood; an American neighborhood, an old neighborhood, an immigrant neighborhood, where the old country still lives inside the new one." This comprehensive history includes interviews with one of the original members of the Cathay Boy's Band.
	www.saxlady.com /history.htm (347 words)

	MediaRights: Film: The Chinatown Files
		This is the first documentary to explore the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950's and 1960's.
		The film presents first-hand accounts of seven people's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation.
		Their interviews are interwoven with rare home movies, photographs and archival film in this exploration of the prejudice and jingoism that affected the lives of Chinese Americans.
	www.mediarights.org /film/the_chinatown_files (262 words)

	Chinatown
		CHINATOWN is a classic film whose intrigues and adventures culminate in life-changing moments for its protagonist, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson).
		CHINATOWN was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
		Polanski went to painstaking lengths to have the film very authentically capture 1930s Los Angeles because the story is based on actual events from the city's history.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/chinatown/about.php (754 words)

	Chinatown (1974): Reviews
		A wonderfully brooding, suspenseful revisitation of the land of film noir, Chinatown is not only one of the greatest detective films, but one of the most perfectly constructed of all films.
		But the greatness of Chinatown, unappreciated by my adolescent self, lies not in its cynical view of the California dream (that's too easy) but in its fatalistic, even tragic conception of America and indeed of human nature.
		A bit abstract, though gorgeously shot (by John Alonzo) and cleverly plotted (by Robert Towne), 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.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/chinatown (702 words)

	Chinatown (film) - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It uses many elements of the film noir genre to present a multi-layered story, part mystery and part psychological drama.
		Chinatown is consistently listed in the top 50 on the Internet Movie Database's top 250 films and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
		The plot is based in part on real events that formed the California Water Wars, in which William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in the Owens Valley.
	voyager.in /Chinatown_(film) (475 words)

	Amazon.com: Chinatown and the Last Detail: 2 Screenplays: Books: Robert Towne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Robert Towne's CHINATOWN is the finest example of screenwriting in the last thirty years.
		Not as intricate as "Chinatown" but the dialogue here is way before it's time and would fit right in with even the more unconventional of 90s movies.
		These films were released in the mid-70s and he won Oscars for both of them, and they have definately stood the test of time.
	www.amazon.com /Chinatown-Last-Detail-2-Screenplays/dp/0802134017 (1514 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		But neither the film's backstory nor its narrative explanations are very interesting, and Shyamalan, who wrote numerous drafts of the script, eventually concluded that it's “a very irrationally personal movie”—but “irrationality” is never a very effective means to engage an audience.
		In Lady in the Water, a film that is so obsessed with storytelling, it seems perfectly reasonable to expect that something surprising or at least interesting will happen at the end of the film, but it doesn't, and everything falls flat.
		He currently teaches English and film at the University of Evansville, Indiana, and is a frequent contributor to Creative Screenwriting.
	www.crisismagazine.com /films.htm (1179 words)

	AsianWeek: A&E: Imagining Chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With just a sly reference to the nefarious way Chinatown is portrayed in Polanski’s film and beyond, Chinatown is a beautiful, meticulous, and challenging drama about a young woman’s struggles in the midst of a fierce community controversy.
		Polanski’s Chinatown has long been regarded as a visionary work, a classic volume of film noir and an indicting peek into the darkness which froths behind the plastic, sunny smiles of the Los Angeles dream machine.
		Ostensibly a film about water and politics, Polanski uses Chinatown as the backdrop to cast eternal questions of corruptive evil, as though the place itself is a darkness to be overcome.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_05_04/ae_chinatownfilm.html (1003 words)

	The Multiplex - General Film Discussion - ..........Chinatown
		It is a testament to the quality of the film that it has held up so well.
		While there's the appearance that he's becoming more humane throughout the film, his entire motivation is selfish and ultimately, there's no redemption for his character.
		Given the noir feel of the film, it worked out the way you'd expect and while it may not be satisfying or uplifting, there is a certain verisimilitude in the way things fall out.
	worldcrossing.com /WebX?14@@.1de27a04 (1024 words)

	Impossible is Not a Word in My Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After the screening of the film in London, during a question and answer session, someone asked me if the hardships experienced by the characters in the movie still happen in America.
		When Zhu Ming was here in America I took her around to some of the major universities here in California that had strong film, media, and arts programs to being a dialogue on each university’s potential participation in the exchange program and the response so far has been great.
		Chinatown just happens to be where the drama takes place.
	www.frictionmagazine.com /artful/film/nowchinatown_print.html (1730 words)

	Events: Chinatown @ Film Forum
		Chinatown @ Film Forum -- 08.08.03, 1:20 PM (1974) “Forget it, Jake.
		The first production from Robert (The Kid Stays in the Picture) Evans’s own banner, Chinatown was originally to have starred his then wife Ali McGraw in the Dunaway part and reteamed Nicholson (in his first romantic role) with screenwriter Robert Towne, who’d scripted his hit The Last Detail.
		But in Polanski’s hands, it became more caustic and disillusioned — a post- Watergate, post-Vietnam excursion into the heart of darkness, made with all the resources of a major studio.
	www.16beavergroup.org /events/archives/000348.php (145 words)

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