Movies

October, 1974

If you miss movies in the grand old tradition of The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, pay a visit to Chinatown. Director Roman Polanski made it, and made it right, in his classiest piece of work since Rosemary's Baby. We may have come a long way, baby, but it's great to be back in the year 1937 while Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne (who copped an Oscar nomination for his script of The Last Detail) spin a sharply crafted melodrama about a cynical private eye (Jack Nicholson) specializing...