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Chinatown
1974 ["Roman Polanski"]

Chinatown

★ 8.1 IMDb
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite 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.
Essays and Criticism
On this film
Chinatown by James Kavanaugh, Jump Cut The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Kevin Canfield, Cineaste
In conversation with other films
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street by Ernest Larsen, Jump Cut
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