NCMA Cinema: Chinatown
Friday, October 19 | 8 pmEast Building, Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students
$5 All others
(1974) Directed by Roman Polanski. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Houston. (131 min.) PG-13
A private detective blunders into corruption-riddled L.A. as a sinister businessman plots to manipulate the city’s water supply. The ’30s are seen through the camera eye of the ’70s in this Chandleresque noir, with a brilliant Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne.
Introduced by Devin Orgeron, Associate Professor, Film Studies Program at N.C. State University
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