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	Chinatown (1974 movie) - Biocrawler
		Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski.
		The movie is highly regarded and won several high-profile awards, including an Academy Award in 1975 for Best Writing and Original Screenplay for Robert Towne.
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Chinatown_%28movie%29 (375 words)

	Chinatown (1974)
		"Chinatown" can also be interpreted as a symbol of that thing that happened in our past, the thing which drives us in whatever we do, but which we cannot bear to look back and face.
		The movie's greatest triumph, no doubt, is Polanski's fusion of all of its different elements - each incredible in itself - into something which not only evokes the atmosphere of the greatest film noirs of the past, but also succeeds in creating its own distinctive atmosphere.
		Chinatown is one of those rare movies, like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars, which transcend the realm of mere entertainment to become myth.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/southernmace/chinatown.html (805 words)

	Chinatown (1974)
		The movie follows private detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) after a wife hires him to confirm that her husband is cheating on her.
		Movies like this work very well even when you know what's going to happen - the craftsmanship remains excellent and the entire piece is strong enough to withstand additional viewings — but I don't think I should even partially disturb the freshness of the piece for you.
		Chinatown's 5.1 soundtrack offered the best of both worlds; it seemed to retain the "feel" of the original mix but it added depth and breadth to the audio that helped bring it to life.
	www.dvdmg.com /chinatown.shtml (1367 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Chinatown (1974 movie)
		Chinatown is a 1974 mystery/film noir directed by Roman Polanski.
		It is consistently in the top 50 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
		The screenplay was written by Robert Towne, who also wrote the script for Chinatown.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ch/Chinatown_(1974_movie) (267 words)

	Chinatown Info, Trailers, and Reviews at MovieTome
		Chinatown, Roman Polanski's true masterpiece, his best film, is a real tour-de-force with a imaginative script and a terrific performance by Jack Nicholson, which puts it on a league on...
		Chinatown, Roman Polanski's true masterpiece, his best film, is a real tour-de-force with a imaginative script and a terrific performance by Jack Nicholson, which puts it on a league on it's own.
		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.
	www.filmspot.com /movie/282956/chinatown/index.html (680 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert Evans (film producer)
		Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski featuring many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama.
		Marathon Man is a 1974 paranoid thriller novel by William Goldman that was made into a 1976 film directed by John Schlesinger.
		Promotional movie poster for Sliver Sliver is a 1993 film based on the Ira Levin novel Sliver about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Evans-%28film-producer%29 (2664 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Chinatown review
		Chinatown is an unqualified classic, and the kind of movie that probably would be compromised if someone were to make it today.
		Chinatown is gorgeously directed, with stylish photography that is marvelously low-key with full compositions that use the entire width of the CinemaScope frame as well as offering fantastic depth of foreground and background.
		Chinatown has a remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack as well as a restored version of the original English mono soundtrack (a separate French mono track is also provided).
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/chinatown.htm (654 words)

	Review: Chinatown
		Chinatown is unquestionably one of the best films to emerge from the 1970s, a period that has been called the "last great decade of American cinema" by more than one movie critic.
		Chinatown requires that the viewer pay attention, not because there are lots of twists, but because the plot is complex and doesn't stop every ten minutes to bring slower audience members up to speed.
		Chinatown proved once and for all that a noir film does not have to be in fl-and-white.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/c/chinatown.html (1798 words)

	Chinatown Movie Review
		Chinatown, for all of its cinematic genius and for all of the incredible scriptwriting that the film has, was unable to truly grab me. It was unable to suck me in, and, if a film can't do that, than you're in trouble.
		Chinatown is the Byzantine mystery concerning the death of Water Commissioner Hollis Mulwray.
		Chinatown is that film that you have heard, all through your life, is great.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/chinatown (463 words)

	DVD Review - Chinatown
		Surprisingly, he managed to give birth to a movie that is dark, ominous and with shadows, as we know it from the classic noir genre, but in full color, in a setting where the pouring rain is replaced by the blazing sun of California.
		Although the surround channels are mostly used to fill the discrete channels, occasionally it is used to great effect to increase the spatial integration of the orchestra, by adding early reflections to the mix, that suddenly create a true live surround feel.
		No matter how old the movie or the story is, it is timeless and easily applicable to any event today, which makes the film interesting for all audiences, whether they like period pieces or not.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/chinatown.shtml (1178 words)

	Chinatown - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
		That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movies.
		"It's Chinatown." Reworking the somber underpinnings of detective noir along more pessimistic lines, Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne convey a '70s-inflected critique of capitalist and bureaucratic malevolence in a carefully detailed period piece harkening back to the genre's roots in the 1930s and '40s.
		Chinatown was nominated for ten other Oscars, including Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, and Score.
	movies.nytimes.com /movie/9362/Chinatown/overview (484 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chinatown (Widescreen): DVD: Roman Polanski,Jim Burk,Fritzi Burr,Lee de Broux,Faye Dunaway,Cecil ...
		As "Chinatown" unfolds, it looks like it's going to be the typical detective movie, but twists and turns in the film's complicated narrative turn a simple San Fransisco water conspiracy into a twisted, perverse, nightmare that reeks of the Electra complex.
		In a way, this movie relays the torture and pain of his Holocaust experience in a better fashion than "The Pianist." Even without digging into director's intentions, the final product of the movie is haunting, tragic, and won't get out of your head for days.
		Not to be overlooked by any means is the movie's evocative and memorable score, which sets the perfect tone of film noir at the beginning, and adds unforgettable impact to the movie's tragic ending.
	www.amazon.ca /Chinatown-Widescreen-Roman-Polanski/dp/B000022TSH (1831 words)

	Chinatown (1974 movie)
		Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston.
		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.
		The film is consistently in the top 50 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Chinatown_(1974_movie) (350 words)

	Wikipedia: Chinatown (1974 movie)
		In the film, a Los Angeles detective named Jake Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson) is hired by a woman claiming to be Mrs.
		The film is densely plotted; in the best mystery tradition, it is nearly impossible to figure out before it's over (and maybe not even for some time after).
		In 1990 a sequel, called The Two Jakes, was released.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/ch/chinatown__1974_movie_.html (275 words)

	chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As in most detective films, Chinatown is quite self-conscious about the detective profession--the detective-hero frequently must defend and justify his line of work.
		Chinatown is an interesting variation of the "Film Noir," a genre of films from the Forties and Fifties that featured detectives operating in worlds that were both physically and morally "dark." The film noir hero finds himself in a world that is extremely unstable, where everything and everyone is suspect.
		Chinatown is full of explicit references to sight, vision, and eyes.
	spot.pcc.edu /~mdembrow/Chinatown.htm (368 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Chinatown
		Chinatown -- Jack Nicholson plays a private eye trying to unravel a murder bound up with a civic scandal in the Los Angeles of the 1930s.
		Faye Dunaway is the mysterious, frightened woman at the center of the plot along with wealthy tycoon John Huston.
		All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L. Office for Film and Broadcasting
	www.usccb.org /movies/c/chinatown.shtml (165 words)

	Chinatown Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Twenty-five years after its initial release, Roman Polanski's elegant film noir remains as vital now as it was in 1974 — and as about as close to perfect as any movie ever gets.
		Chinatown is that rare instance when everything comes together and the end result, without hyperbole, can be described as a masterpiece.
		Chinatown may be a noir, but John A. Alonzo's stunning cinematography makes the most of sun-drenched California vistas (a strategy employed to similar effect more recently in L.A. Confidential).
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=171 (945 words)

	BBC - Films - Chinatown
		Made in 1974, Chinatown sees Jack Nicholson give a career-best performance as the improbably named Jake Gittes, an LA private eye who digs too deeply into the affairs of a mysterious woman (Faye Dunaway) who hires him to spy on her husband.
		The movie's brilliance is perhaps mainly down to director Roman Polanski, who twists a crucial, tragic fatalism into Robert Towne's Oscar-winning script.
		Chinatown is screening at the National Film Theatre in London from Friday 23rd April 2004.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/10/12/chinatown_1974_review.shtml (364 words)

	VHS : Chinatown (25th Anniversary Widescreen Edition) - The Owl Pages shop
		"Chinatown" is a fantastic private eye mystery thriller, filmed in 1974 and directed by Roman Polanski.
		Chinatown is probably one of the last great film noir movies.
		While the movie is long, and the characters come across as people with whom it's hard to sympathize (until it's too late), the storyline is such that you are compelled to see how it unravels.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Chinatown (xhtml)
		His performance is key in keeping "Chinatown" from becoming just a genre crime picture -- that, and a Robert Towne screenplay that evokes an older Los Angeles, a small city in a large desert.
		The crimes in "Chinatown" include incest and murder, but the biggest crime is against the city's own future, by men who see that to control the water is to control the wealth.
		He made the movie just five years after his wife, Sharon Tate, was one of the victims of the Manson gang, and can be excused for tilting toward despair.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000206/REVIEWS08/2060301/1023 (1222 words)

	The Ultimate Chinatown (disambiguation) - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chinatown is a general name for an urban region containing a large population of Chinese people within a non-Chinese society
		Chinatown was a movie directed by Roman Polanski.
		Chinatown, My Chinatown was a song written in 1910 with lyrics by William Jerome and music by Jean Schwartz.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Chinatown_(disambiguation) (114 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Once you say you want to do a detective movie, you start thinking about what crime is to you, what it really means, what you think is really a horrible crime and what angers you.
		I chose the nose-cutting sequence [in Chinatown] because I felt it would be very hard to take seriously any violence that was visited on the hero, because you know he's going to last until the end of the movie.
		I almost like it when movies are a little boring in the beginning because it establishes credibility to build on.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122390/index.html (1665 words)

	Roman Polanski Vision - Chinatown Interview 1974
		Polanski's latest effort, Chinatown, is a detective melodrama set in the Los Angeles Chinatown of 1937.
		In Chinatown, Huston is the millionaire father of Faye Dunaway, who has gotten into terrible trouble.
		Chinatown is a thriller and the story line is very important.
	minadream.com /romanpolanski/Interview.htm (1951 words)

	Chinatown
		In the finale, which has become an enduring pop icon, Kong carries a screaming Fay Wray to the top of the Empire State Building but is gunned down by a swarm of Army biplanes.
		King Kong is a classic 1933 Hollywood horror/adventure film from RKO about a gigantic prehistoric gorilla, brought from a remote island to New York City to be exhibited as a natural wonder, that escapes to cause mass destruction.
		The giant gate used in the 1933 movie was burned along with other old studio sets for the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone With the Wind.
	www.ftppro.com /library/Chinatown_%281974_movie%29 (1157 words)

	CHINATOWN - DVD
		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.
		The Special Features menu encompasses an awkward trailer from 1974 and a 13-minute video featuring retrospective interviews from Chinatown's three principal crew members: Polanski, Towne, and gravel-voiced producer Robert Evans (who is lit and photographed in the manner of an old-fashioned movie star).
		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.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/chinatown.htm (882 words)

	The Corruptor (1999): Mark Wahlberg, Chow Yun Fat, Ric Young, Paul Ben-Victor - PopMatters Film Review
		Such acquiescence to buddy plot protocol undermines the movie's finer impulses, its investigations of cultural rifts and challenges to racist assumptions.
		And yet the movie is entangled in the very conventions it's presumably exploiting.
		But Chinatown, that most exotic other, is only one small part of the problem.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/corruptor.shtml (1260 words)

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		Standing in his way is a Mannix-like studio head (Rod Steiger) and his henchman, who have dirt on Charlie's past and the guile to murder a B-movie starlet with loose lips (Shelley Winters).
		Then you have the two neo-noir movies that Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia transparently emulate: Chinatown (1974) and L.A. Confidential (1997).
		Chinatown, loosely based on a Los Angeles water distribution controversy of the '20s, is cinema's ultimate story of unchecked corruption and one man's fatalistic challenge to the city's powerbrokers.
	www.wwltv.com /sharedcontent/dws/ent/movies/stories/DN-noir_0908gl.mov.78caf2ef.html (728 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Chinatown, Jack Nicholson, VHS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chinatown's Los Angeles is a city born of a greedy desire to conquer a forbidding desert, a place where power excuses all perversion.
		Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" (1974) integrates moral despair with classic, and bankable, Hollywood elements--an atmospheric setting, a likable hero, a lady in distress, romance, suspense, and direct narrative and cinematic allusions to the Raymond Chandler crime movies of the forties.
		In "Chinatown", water is used for recreation it is also a weapon (The Water Commissioner is drowned in a pond, Gittes is almost swept under in a drainage gulley) but in the film's strongest indictment of capitalism, water--a primary element of nature--becomes a viable currency, to be hoarded, diverted and controlled for private interest.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Product.asp?sourceid=00395996645644787198&btob=Y&ean=97361551616&itm=5 (1601 words)

	"Chinatown" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		It features all the components of a great movie: interesting characters portrayed by great actors, airtight directing, and a script that many film buffs consider to be the ideal screenplay.
		There is very little offensive material contained in the movie; brief amounts of nudity and very little profanity.
		By "today's standards" Chinatown would not receive the R rating it was given, but its society's "standards", not God's, that have changed.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2002/chinatown.html (567 words)

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