164 Chinatown Part 1
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 117 minutes
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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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