Towne, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles at 89, won a single Oscar, for writing “that movie for Jack [Nicholson],” as Sam Wasson recounts in his 2020 book “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the L ...

Interior Chinatown season one ... Her keen interest in movies, shows, fashion, lifestyle, and wellness, and her love for the written word inspired her to take up writing professionally.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was headlining at the annual TCM Classic ...

“Chinatown Cha-Cha” makes its Bay Area premiere at AMC Kabuki 8 as part of the 43rd iteration of CAAMFest, the Center for Asian American Media’s annual film festival running Thursday through Sunday.

But none of Towne’s screenplays attained the enduring stature of “Chinatown,” which continues to be studied by writers and film-school students and is considered one of the finest movie ...