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
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-Video, 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: Is it possible? A deep and subtle film noire.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite Polanski films, which is saying a lot. Unlike the two-dimensional characters that you get in the FN genre, these characters are realistic, troubled, and flawed. Nicolson is the best: a PI because he had to leave the police force, he is deeply angry and cynical. But in his heart, he does want to help. He is skilled as an investigator and smart, but gets in way over his head. Dunaway, the femme fatale who is the only person with a clear idea of diong good, also defies simple labels. Their performances are amongst the finest of their careers, so good they have to been seen and savored more than once. Huston is also good as a sleazeball, but even he adds aspects to the character that make the role unforgettable.
This is one of the films that is so interesting and moving you can watch it at each phase of your life and find nuance you missed. Recommended with the greatest enthusiasm.
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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