
If you thought film noir was long dead and gone, think twice. The genre – if you can even call it that – has never vanished from the landscape. The rumors about its demise have been largely exaggerated – for the simple reason that there have been many noteworthy classics since the heyday of film noir in the 1940s and 1950. One of them is Chinatown by Polish director Roman Polanski, if only because it reminds us of former days and highlights of the genre.The movie is set in the Los Angeles of 1937 and harks back to historic disputes about the water rights in Southern California during the 1910s and 1920s.
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