“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 ...

The Nicholson of “Chinatown” emerges here as a movie star only by happenstance ... “Heart Lamp" is a collection of stories about Indian Muslim women’s daily struggles with bothersome ...

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 ...