“Screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski, working for the first time with a script not written by him, created a work of art disguised as a commercial movie,” says veteran film ...

In 1985, while teaching martial arts at his mother's Sutter Street studio, Dacascos strolled through Chinatown on lunch ... I would like to audition for the movie. You meet this guy on the street ...

Want to give mahjong or Bollywood dancing a try? You can, at a new Asian cultural festival called the Lotus Festival of Food and Culture, which will be hosted in D.C.’s Chinatown Park all week.

Mainland China stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reunite for a fourth round of high-stakes snooping in Detective Chinatown 1900 ... To Become No. 3 Animated Movie Ever Worldwide; Local Tracking ...

In the years following the events of “Chinatown,” Gittes has become more successful but less open; the psychic pain inflicted upon him by the events of the previous movie has left the ...

Wonder Land: Whether it’s members of Congress, protesters in the street, even golf tournaments—it’s hard not to notice the rising tide of jerk-like behavior. Images: Storyblocks/TikTok ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A planned mixed-use development in Chinatown will offer more than new residential, retail and dining spaces. It will pay homage to the rich history of Singapore's Indian Muslim community.