I'm not really sure how I escaped my film school education without watching Chinatown, but it's one that's been on my ever-growing, never-ending watchlist for quite some time. The only things I knew ...

Hollywood can be a capricious place, so there's truly no shortage of stories about actors whose starring roles changed seemingly on a whim. For every time a casting idea works out, there are dozens of ...

In Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," Nicholson plays Jake Gittes, a private detective who gets caught up in a web of corruption ...

Detective Jake Gittes stares into the desert sun, his nose bandaged and his eyes shaded, before a yellow sign touting sold farmland. - Herbert Dorfman/Getty Images Few films have captured Hollywood's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term iconic is often overused, but it’s entirely appropriate when it comes to the 1974 neo-noir masterpiece, Chinatown. This ...

Few films have captured Hollywood's collective imagination as strongly as Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, the lauded 1974 noir is a chillingly ...