Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
by Roman Polanski
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Actor: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman, John Huston, Perry LopezDirector: Roman Polanski
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Stylish Yet Disappointing
Summary: 4 Stars
Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is a private eye with a nose for trouble. Roman Polanski (current felon, but we won't go there) directed what many see as one of his masterpieces of cinema back in 1974. Jack definitely channels Bogart with some Raymond Chandler and some hard-boiled detective action.
The film does not lack from interest --- the mystery gets deeper and deeper and just when you think you have the story figured out, another twist. But how many times can I watch Gittes climb a chain link fence? And the cameo of Polanski as a thug made no sense at all to the story. Who was this gangster working for? What's the relationship with some of the men he tangles with? What's the relation between the farmers and Faye Dunaway's character?
Odd, insightful and looong. Rather than watch a neo-noir film, take in a Maltese Falcon or the Big Sleep! For what it does, Chinatown does succeed as a murder mystery in 1930s LA. But my heart belongs to Bogie.
Polanski films:
The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion
Summary of Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award?-winning script by Robert Towne, Chinatown captures a lost era in a masterfully woven movie that remains a timeless gem.Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted color cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley
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