Chinatown (1974)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Robert Towne
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, James Hong

Coming across like the baleful lovechild of Raymond Chandler and Karl Marx, Polanski’s majestic, doleful portrait of an enigmatic private detective in 1930s drought ridden Los Angeles, chronicling his various misadventures after he stumbles upon a multi-million dollar conspiracy, is as depressingly relevant today as it ever was. Iain.Stott