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Chinatown (Blu-ray)

Perry Lopez (Actor), John Huston (Actor), Roman Polanski (Director) Format: Blu-ray

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Genre	Drama
Format	Blu-ray, PAL
Contributor	Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski, Perry Lopez, Jack Nicholson, John Huston
Runtime	2 hours and 5 minutes

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Classic US crime drama directed by Roman Polanski which sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930's Southern California. Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up dead at the bottom of a reservoir. Realising he has been used, Gittes confronts Mulwray's widow, Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), a woman who seems to have plenty of secrets of her own, not least her ambiguous relationship with her father, Noah Cross (John Huston).

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Product dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.5 x 1.5 x 17.2 cm; 70 Grams

Director ‏ : ‎ Roman Polanski

Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, PAL

Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 5 minutes

Release date ‏ : ‎ 16 August 2017

Actors ‏ : ‎ Perry Lopez, John Huston, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson

Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075K3XJN7

Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Australia

Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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kelsey
As good as I remember
Reviewed in Australia on 15 December 2020
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There's a reason it's a classic of cinema. Will always be in my favourites list
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Andrew J Alexander
A TOP FILM
Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2021
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Just as good a film as when I first saw it years ago.
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Rod Crabtree
Great Movie
Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2018
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Its a GREAT movie and still stands up today
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An oldie but a goodie
Reviewed in Australia on 24 December 2020
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Great movie with a great cast. Jack Nicholson is superb as usual.
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Bluesboy
No extras !!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2018
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This UK blu-ray disc is reviewed as having extras including commentary along with extras featured on previously issued DVD version. IT HAS NONE WHATSOEVER !
The film is without doubt a 5 star, but thisUK blu-ray edition is only worth 3 star. A rip-off!
I have subsequently purchased a US import and it has several extras and therefor 5 stars all round.
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Seatinthestalls
History Repeats Itself
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2011
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Roman Polanski created an unforgetable film-noir. Although shot in colour, it still retains an authentic feel of place and time.

Jack Nicholson plays the inevitable gumshoe wandering into a convoluted plot until it's way above his head. Faye Dunaway has the role of Femme-fatale to perfection. These two are the main players, but there's a decent supporting cast that includes an alarming `Goodfellas'-style cameo from the director himself. The plot twists so much it must be watched rather than described. Pacing, lighting & editing are absolutely spot-on, enabling the whole movie to flow in both plot and character development. And the icing on the cake is its theme music, which surfaces as incidental elements throughout the movie. It's a slow-burning jazz number with languid trumpet lead that hits the spot in every theme and is as much a part of plot cohesion as the script itself.

Some don't appear to enjoy this movie half so much as they should. I don't know why, and clearly my praise of it must be as confusing to them. All I can say is that I was bowled over at first watching and have loved it ever since. It's nearly 40 years old now, but might have been made yesterday. No element has aged in the least.

The Collector's Edition supplied by Amazon is crisp & clear. It is listed as 125mins run-time, `15' viewer-rating, and 2.35:1 aspect ratio. There's a number of interesting extras.

Highly recommended and collectible.
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Speedigee
Polanski's classic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2015
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Polanski's classic noir thriller based on the Los Angeles water wars, ie the political difficulties over the Owens Valley aqueduct. It presented a vague backdrop for a murder mystery story set in the 1930s. It was a generally entertaining film with some good acting and a very good musical soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. The Blu-ray video was good but the sound was better when set to the restored mono rather than the simulated 5.1 Dolby stereo - the latter seemed to be at a lower level compared to the musical soundtrack which made it difficult to set a suitable sound level. For the record this US import will play in the UK and includes all the extras which are apparently missing from the UK version.
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Jason Parkes
A masterpiece of 20th Century Cinema.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2003
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Chinatown remains one of the great 70s films of all time, alongside such perfect works as The Conformist, The Godfather I&II, Badlands, Shampoo, Mean Streets, Network, The Last Picture Show, The French Connection, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest & The Deer Hunter. Penned by key New-Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne (The Last Detail) & directed by Roman Polanksi, it recreates a knowing take on film noir. This is done by updating the colour scheme, moving from the chiaroscuro experimentation of film noir such as The Big Heat, Out of the Past & In a Lonely Place to a lush colour scheme utilising orange-filters in an intrigueing manner. The film recreates an era with John A Alonso's cinematography- which sits next to the perfect recreations of era in colour such as Reds, Days of Heaven, Barry Lyndon & Heaven's Gate.
Towne's screenplay is complex & knowing, so many twists & parallels it is as good as the genre to which it refers- most notably the roman-noir writings of Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye) & Dashiel Hammett (Red Harvest). It makes the film adaptation of LA Confidential look a joke compared. Great to see a lack of voiceover, Towne can easily do the droll-Bogart quips- as is seen when Jake talks to the cops- but the images are left to do the talking. And when the twists come, they come- & are as powerful as those in films such as Vertigo.
The cast are brilliant- one of Nicholson's key performances (so why did he win an Oscar for As Good as it Gets?), alongside brilliant turns from Faye Dunaway, Diane Ladd & a creepy John Huston (there's also a top cameo from Polanski & an appearance from John Hillerman, familiar to those who watched Magnum PI!).
The film starts off as a simple detective story, a local politician is accused by his wife of having an affair, Jake Gittes- who used to work for the D.A. until an undefined event in Chinatown- takes on the case & starts to tail the man in question. The backdrop of politics appears to be related- 1937 LA has not yet expanded to the valleys & is experiencing a water shortage; add to this politicians who wish to build a new dam. Enter Faye Dunaway, an extension of the femme fatale who is more of a victim than a spiderwoman, who informs Gittes that she is the real wife of the man he's tailing (so who was the woman who originally hired him?). Complexities abound when said man turns up dead in the LA water system & it turns out saltwater was in his lungs. Enter a web of modern corruption, leading to Noah Cross (John Huston), who was involved with the dead man & wants to track a girl seen by Gittes during surveillance. Enter more complexities & revelations...
Chinatown is a simply brilliant film, one that can definitely be called perfect- it slowly reveals a portrait of a changing LA- where modern life is taking over (the Okies recalling those in Grapes of Wrath are being destroyed by the politicians & the police are in cahoots with Cross)- preceding the world James Ellroy takes up with books like The Black Dahlia & LA Confidential. It also has a brilliant score from Jerry Goldsmith, which William Goldman believes saves the film (see Which Lie Did I Tell?). A masterpiece of 20th century cinema that is great value at this budget price...
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Lou Knee
Great edition of a great movie
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2009
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If there are any niggly little flaws in this movie then they are SO minor as to be completely inconsequential. The marriage of major movie stylists Polanski and Nicholson on one film proves to be almost too good to believe. Have they made another movie together? And if not, why not? It simply throbs with style and charisma, this movie, and the work of both men here is just exceptional. You really can't hype this movie enough, it sets out knowing exactly what it wants to be and delivers it by the bucketful. Nothing in it is forced or rushed or looks out of place. This is because there are cinematic masters at work here. Everything is relaxed (as real Noir should be) and very, very confidently executed. A masterpiece.
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