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The Cine-Files

164 Chinatown Part 1

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the great Robert Evans, Steve and John begin a journey into the deep, unknowable world of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown.


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0:00.0

Hi this is Steve. A few weeks ago we lost Hollywood legend Robert Evans and if you

0:06.2

wanted to find one person to represent all the passion, excess, rule-breaking, and

0:10.8

great filmmaking of Hollywood in the 1970s, Bob Evans is your guy.

0:16.4

He was the ultimate Hollywood power player, an arrogant iconoclastic womanizer who partied

0:22.4

with Nicholson and battled with Copala.

0:25.0

Discovered as an actor Poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Evans went from

0:29.7

failed movie star to the head of Paramount Pictures and turned that failing studio into a

0:35.1

Hollywood hit machine with movies like the odd couple, love story, Godfather One and

0:40.3

two, and of course the film we're talking about this week on the cinnophiles, Chinatown.

0:45.3

Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson, Fay Dunaway and the great John Houston,

0:50.1

Chinatown is a gritty mystery with all the twists and turns of a classic film noir combined with the ambiguity and emotional complexity that is the hallmark of 70s filmmaking.

1:01.5

So if you haven't seen this remarkable film take a journey down the

1:04.9

dark corridors of the internet to cinnophiles.net where you can buy or stream Chinatown

1:10.6

along with every other movie we've ever reviewed. Then come back on

1:13.9

Friday to hear John and I break down one of the most mysterious mysteries in the

1:18.9

history of cinema, Roman Polanski's Chinatown.

1:25.0

Do you know me?

1:29.0

Well, I think I would have remembered. Have we ever met?

1:31.0

Well, no.

1:33.5

Never.

1:36.6

That's what I thought.

1:38.2

You see, I'm Mrs. Evelyn Mulray.

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