Chinatown
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. From TMDB
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60 of 224 · most liked firstI always forget Chinatown is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →This is how you accept a Best Actor gong (for “Chinatown”) — with a skit via satellite on the set of your next Movie (“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”) which will win you the Best Actor Oscar the following year. DAVID NIVEN & JACK NICHOLSON in 1975.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished watching CHINATOWN (1974). This is, in fact, as good as the hype proclaimed, particularly the BLEAK, soul crushing, ending. The film looks just incredible on 4K, and Jack Nicholson proves why he became one of the all time greats very early in his career.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw this film dork tweet something like "THE SUBSTANCE is passable but only if you view it as a comedy about vanity" and like, yeah bro, CHINATOWN is a mystery about plumbing, do you think Coralie Fargeat just tripped on a banana peel and accidentally made a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →📷 h a n g d r y 📷 Just a random alleyway in Chinatown. #sanfrancisco #california #westcoastkin #bayarea #canonAE1 #film
neutral · AI labelView post →LA Confidential isn’t the greatest movie ever or even my favorite. But it’s hard to find a better 35m stretch than the end of that movie. Brilliant screenplay, amazing sets, great acting. Like its forerunner Chinatown (which I love even more) I discover something new every time I watch it.
positive · AI labelView post →Chinatown, NYC Ricoh 500 G Rikenon f/2.8 40mm fixed lens Ilford HP5 Plus 400 35mm #film #photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like any of the following: Perfect Blue Ghost in the Shell Chinatown The Animatrix movies as a whole movies as a concept you will love this See. This. Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Found KINO LORBER's 4K of THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995) today. I've seen bits of this film, but never watched it all the way through, though I am well aware of it's reputation. Unfortunately, much like CHINATOWN it's another film tainted by heinous revelations about the people that made it. -__-
neutral · AI labelView post →The water of the once lush Owens Valley was diverted by Mullholland a wealthy developer. Southern California has no natural water source and is a desert. Watch the movie Chinatown or read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
neutral · AI labelView post →Chinatown (1974) Directed by Roman Polanski
neutral · AI labelView post →IMHO, the must underrated US film of the 1970s is Klute. Never discussed as top tier with the Godfathers, Taxi Driver, Chinatown etc. When discussed, it's all about Fonda. But Klute has maybe the best camera work/design of the decade, tons of improv, and politics way ahead of its time. Klute, dude.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished this today. From the author of The Big Goodbye - a brilliantly written book about the making of Chinatown - this is a deep dive into Coppola’s dream of creating a new kind of film studio, a utopian artists collective called Zoetrope. Very inspiring but will make you feel lazy by comparison.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie is Chinatown for anyone under like forty
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't wait for the 'ROMAN POLANSKI' biopic in two years. It ends right after 'Chinatown' is nominated for Best Picture, and nothing noteworthy ever happens again. The 'GARY GLITTER' movie gonna be lit as hell, too. 🤮
neutral · AI labelView post →Not to be trite but Chinatown is an excellent film and everyone should watch it
positive · AI labelView post →Number 437: a remake of the film Chinatown where everyone agrees they’ve made mistakes and lets bygones be bygones
neutral · AI labelView post →It was sort of towards the end but I wish he had done the entire video that way where he would go Chinatown, man that’s such a powerful examination of both China and towns, just a brilliant film.
neutral · AI labelView post →gonna make a movie about how Roman Polanski survived the Holocaust, became a filmmaker, broke into Hollywood, directed Rosemary’s Baby, suffered the loss of his pregnant wife, willed himself to continue making films, culminating in the success of Chinatown, the end.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper movie completist, I checked out Detective Chinatown 1900 in a London cinema yesterday. I think I was the only non-Asian in a full house (several other screenings I looked up were sold out) which was also overwhelmingly young and female.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunny morning, Chinatown Seattle [Linhof 617, Lomo 800] #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →Just when I thought the reclaimed blue film was amazing this new #polaroid green is growing on me fast! #instantfilm just makes 😍 first light #dtla Chinatown #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm fascinated by what Don Bluth's The Little Blue Whale could've turned out had he made it. The film would've been written by Robert Towne who also wrote Chinatown and Shampoo and all we have are the concept art keys of what the film could've looked like. It looked nice.
neutral · AI labelView post →#neonoir #filmsky #moviesky #noirneckties Jake Gittes, stylishly battling California’s 1937 water wars. Jack Nicholson in CHINATOWN (1974)
neutral · AI labelView post →It might've even been exactly 30 years ago today that I risked life and limb to see BULLET IN THE HEAD in the basement of a Chinatown movie theatre, and I had no regrets.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love strolling through # CHINATOWN in San Francisco. It’s like a movie set.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Chinatown and shaking my head throughout the movie so people don’t think I like Roman Polanski
neutral · AI labelView post →If you can separate the art from the artist, which is f****** hard sometimes, that movie is a must see. If you can't, I forgive you. Chinatown. Also a good song by the obscure late 90s band Jets to Brazil.
positive · AI labelView post →Chinatown, both a masterpiece in its own right and a movie that correctly identifies power in California as built on a foundation of water profiteering and sexual assault
positive · AI labelView post →Shot on Arthouse Film Lab 250D cinema film. Processed and scanned by Arthouse Film Lab in Chinatown.
neutral · AI labelView post →6/20/74: Chinatown!!!! D Polanski/W Towne; w/Nicholson, Dunaway, Huston + The Citizen Kane of the 70s From us: '70s movie pod, w/guest Ron Bronwstein: open.spotify.com/episode/593t... The inevitable ending: midcenturycinema.org/2017/05/03/n... The Wasson book: brightlightsfilm.com/books-the-bi...
unlabelledView post →"This movie is a cross between Shuan the Sheep Movie, and Chinatown. It earned it’s Five Bag rating already, 6 minutes into the movie! Which may be a new record." Read 'Behind the Scenes of Sheep Detectives' a new News post by Gregg Turkington of the VFA heinetwork.tv/2026/05/18/b...
unlabelledView post →Showed wife The Nice Guys last night, and man, that is just an absolute frikkin gem of a movie. Everyone is good in it and there’s funny moments all the time. Like a Jackie Chan movie meets Chinatown.
unlabelledView post →Early morning in Chinatown #kodak #portra400 #mediumformat #film #photography #streetphotography
unlabelledView post →In Boston, Chinatown is a block from the largest movie theater. You can get a deal at the theater, 2 movies and a coupon for one of several Chinese Restaurants.
unlabelledView post →OTD 6/20/1974: Roman Polanki's brilliant CHINATOWN opens in theaters. Most thrilling movie ever made about water rights! 🤣 Jack Nicholson is iconic, Faye Dunaway is legendary...especially in doozy of a finale. 11 Oscar nods, winning for Robert Towne's delightfully twisty screenplay. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, I realize, was both my first Diane Ladd movie (I didn't see Chinatown till much later) and my first Martin Scorsese movie.
unlabelledView post →Er. Chinatown appears to star… the Status Quo film. What?
unlabelledView post →Defrosting some colour film 😱 Well it is new year celebrations in Chinatown today 🎇🎉🌚🧧
unlabelledView post →On this day (23rd November) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing The Postman Always Rings Twice and Chinatown as a Jack Nicholson double bill.
unlabelledView post →Don’t listen to the guy in the movie Chinatown who tells Jack Nicholson to forget it because it’s Chinatown, Chinatown actually rules.
unlabelledView post →Chinatown is an awesome movie, don't really know what to tell you on that one.
unlabelledView post →Fun fact: Chinatown (1974) being set in 1937 would be like making a movie today that was set in 1989, ie 15 years after Chinatown itself was made
unlabelledView post →My favourite Jack Nicholson performance? It’s Chinatown (this is the scene where he races back to the office to tell his friends the racist joke he heard at the barbershop, oblivious to the mood of everyone) youtu.be/7SZMEImptPQ
unlabelledView post →Jack Nicholson was raised thinking that his grandmother was his mother and that his actual mother was his sister. He ironically found out the truth from a TIME magazine reporter interviewing him for the movie CHINATOWN.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching CHINATOWN (1974). Director: Roman Polanski. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway. Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. Rewatching classic...perhaps most fascinating story about city ordinance & water rights ever! 11 Oscar noms. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Thinking about my conflicted relationship to the movie Chinatown today for no reason
unlabelledView post →Again our senile lunatic president is describing half-remembered scenes from the movie Chinatown as if they were real
unlabelledView post →No one is gonna care, but: Chow Yun-fat's apartment in this movie is literally 1.5 blocks from my old Chinatown apartment I felt proud, somehow
unlabelledView post →My face whilst reading a Guardian article about Chinatown that seems to think it's a just a cool film about a cool private eye investigating the Los Angeles Water Department.
unlabelledView post →There are so many movies out that I haven't seen yet. I need to see Camp Miasma. I need to see the Looney Tunes Chinatown movie. I need to see Primetime.
unlabelledView post →Jerry Goldsmith (with scenes from "Planet of the Apes", "Chinatown", "Alien" and "Poltergeist" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →“The often dramatic history of water management in the Western US has been a central part of our story, inspiring stories like the film Chinatown. But just like the movie, our waterways have aged, and perhaps not aged well,” writes Science Network member and guest blogger Emily Williams.
unlabelledView post →Inside the historic and stunning Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. Among its notable movie appearances: Blade Runner (1982), Double Indemnity (1944), Chinatown (1974), and The Artist (2011).
unlabelledView post →Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the secret third Chinatown movie.
unlabelledView post →Chinatown on film. #filmphotography #35mm #kodak200 #art
unlabelledView post →This week on That '70s Movie Podcast, Michael & I are joined by none other than Ron Brownstein to discuss... Chinatown [!!!!] I dubbed Chinatown "The Citizen Kane of the '70s Film"; Ron's book, Rock Me on the Water, is steeped in the production of this masterpiece podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
unlabelledView post →Chinatown, Singapore 📸 Canon EOS 650 film 🔎 Canon 50mm 1.4 🎞️ Cinestill 400D #filmphotography #believeinfilm
unlabelledView post →The Chinatown in Victoria, B.C., was founded in 1858. It is the oldest in Canada, with a charming compact "movie set" feel and lots of hustle and bustle. Oh, good food as well. Enjoy your Saturday, folks. I'm off to visit charming Stratford Ontario today. Catch up later! #victoriabc #chinatown #pics
unlabelledView post →Chinatown (Binondo, Maynila) --- DAYONE, a solo animated short film and research project of Shane Magtoto #artph #KeyCheyn #KeyCheynAnimation #indieanimation #indiefilm #oc
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