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Chinatown
Many criminal cases and abuses are investigated by Jake Gates, a private detective. Jake was set up to investigate the case of adultery. But then Jake reveals the existence of a murder plot by a thief and the issue of water privatization through government corruption, land use, real estate, criminal cases and other issues. Jake is still threatened if he does not immediately drop the case, facing threats of severe legal action against him but still pursuing those cases without a response.
18 August 1933, Paris, France
29 April 1915, Canastota, New York, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
2 May 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 November 1935, Meridian, Mississippi, USA
4 January 1914, Frankfort, Indiana, USA
10 July 1962, USA
25 October 1887, Greenville, Illinois, USA
29 January 1931, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
30 December 1925, Maryland, USA
October 19, 1907 in Hawaii, USA
22 July 1929, New York City, New York, USA
17 April 1923, Stockton, California, USA
9 February 1927, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
18 February 1912, Monterey County, California, USA
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
November 24, 1903 in Azores, Portugal
31 August 1931, Mineola, Texas, USA
January 05, 2013
This film is flawless.
January 03, 2013
Unmissable.
January 03, 2013
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
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.
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.
February 09, 2006
The hard-boiled private eye coolly strolls a few steps ahead of the audience.
February 04, 2014
Chinatown is deliciously, intolerably cruel as it toys with us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
