Roman PolanskiFrom Holocaust Survivor to Fugitive Roman Polanski was one of the biggest young directors in Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s. After surviving the Holocaust as a boy (his mothe...

Robert TowneIn order to write Chinatown, Robert Towne turned down $175,000. You read that correctly. Producer Robert Evans offered him that sum in order to adapt The Great Gatsby, but Towne didn't...

Paramount PicturesParamount killed it in 1974, managing to produce two of the biggest films of the era: The Godfather: Part II and Chinatown. Coppola's Godfather sequel snapped up all the Oscars, b...

Creative Tension Polanski and Towne argued about everything when making Chinatown—which ended up producing a classic. So, if you want to great a masterpiece, throw two talented people together an...

Eerie Yet Beautiful The awesome trick about this score is it sounds like something smooth and jazzy enough to listen to on a romantic date…until the screeching trumpet kicks in. Then it gets real...

Screaming fans routinely line up outside Robert Towne's window, chanting, "We want more Gittes! More Gittes!" Not actually. Chinatown ain't that kind of movie. Chinatown doesn't have a cult of foll...