Chinatown was inspired by a real story though the main plot and eventual dark ending were fabricated for the sake of the movie. It does an excellent job of wrapping its plot threads up by its ...

Cinematographer John Alonzo eschewed diffusion to give the film a greater sense of immediacy and shot a great deal of “Chinatown” with a 40mm anamorphic lens to replicate human perception as ...

Played by Perry Lopez in the 1974 film, Escobar is more obstacle than ally to Gittes in that story. But their shared history as police partners patrolling Chinatown, as well as Escobar’s ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was headlining at the annual TCM Classic ...

More from Sam González Kelly: 40 years ago, Old Chinatown was booming. Now the I-45 project could erase it entirely. “This movie is for the neighborhood. This is one of our stories, proud of it ...

Wasson also wrote that the movie's famous closing line originated with a vice cop who had told Towne that crimes in Chinatown were seldom prosecuted. "Robert Towne once said that Chinatown is a ...