Chinatown (1974)
Private detective J.J. 'Jake' Gittes is hired to follow Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. After Mulwray drowns, Gittes investigates his death, stumbling on a fraud with waterrights.
Books on Chinatown
| Sam Wasson The big goodbye, Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood New York, 2020 |
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Michael Eaton Chinatown London, 1997 |
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Books with substantial mentioning of Chinatown
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David Thomson Moments that made the movies London, 2014 |
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| James Greenberg Roman Polanski, A retrospective New York, 2013 |
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| David Ehrenstein Roman Polanski Paris, 2012 |
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John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.) Fifty Key American Films London and New York, 2009 |
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell Encyclopedia of Film Noir Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007 |
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Ronald Schwartz Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005 |
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Roger Ebert The Great Movies 2003 |
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Mikita Brottman (editor) Jack Nicholson, Movie Top Ten 2000 |
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| Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000 |
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Danny Peary Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present New York, 1993 |
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Neil Sinyard Classic Movies London, 1993 |
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James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts The Great Detective Pictures Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1990 |
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Robert Bookbinder The Films of the Seventies Secaucus, NJ, 1982 |
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Articles on Chinatown
| Incest Is Interesting, in: Paul Cronin (ed.), Roman Polanski, Jackson, Mississippi, 2005 |
| Angie Errigo, Chinatown, in: Empire, nr. 263 (May), 2011 pp. 154-155 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of Chinatown
| Kim Newman, The 10 Scariest Movie Jumps, in: Empire, nr. 162, 2002 pp. 12-13 |
Articles with an entry on Chinatown
| John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49 |
Reviews
| Rob Fraser, Chinatown, in: Empire, nr. 179, 2004 pp. 42 |
