In the 1974 film “Chinatown,” there’s deceit, deception and murder, as well as a timeless Los Angeles protagonist – water. Having debuted 50 years ago this week, “Chinatown” is set ...

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 ...

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 ...

Switching the action from contemporary diaspora districts to turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the film throws the duo ... Hong Kong legend Chow Yun-fat, as Chinatown’s unofficial kingpin ...

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 ...

Their journey began decades ago when Harry captured life in Chinatown on film scraps a friend gave him and a camera he learned how to use in grad school for a thesis project he never completed.

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. Donald Sutherland, left, and Robert Towne ...

Chinatown Cha-Cha finds Yee at age 92, performing what she refers to as her swan song: the final dance routines of her life, complete with risqué moves and signature coy expressions. In the film, Yee ...