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2 days ago · Chinatown centers on Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), a private investigator working in Los Angeles in the 1930s. The picture is set against the backdrop of the California water wars—a series of ...
3 days ago · The late Robert Towne’s script for Chinatown, full of lived-in detail and masterful twists, is sheer movie heaven. But writing it was hell. The stray remark from a Los Angeles beat cop friend ...
2 days ago · Robert Towne, who wrote scripts for “Chinatown,” “Shampoo” and the first two Mission: Impossible films, pictured in 2006. (Peter Morris/The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media/Getty Images ...
May 29, 2013 · Chinatown has become a classic Hollywood film in part because it introduced the movie-going public to some of the best movie quotes of all time as well as being widely regarded as one of the greatest movies ever.
3 days ago · Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of a number of acclaimed movies, including the classic 1974 noir thriller “Chinatown” starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, has died. He was 89 ...
3 days ago · Getty Images. Writer-director Robert Towne, an Oscar winner for his original script for “ Chinatown ” and an acknowledged master of the art of screenwriting, has died. He was 89. Towne died ...
4 days ago · Robert Towne, the screenwriter and director whose Oscar-winning work in the 1974 film Chinatown enshrined him in Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. Towne died at his home on Monday,...
