Since the creation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the heyday of hardboiled detective movies like The Maltese Falcon, the mystery genre has been widely successful. Often boasting some of ...

In 1974, Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, and Jack Nicholson teamed brought film noir back to the big screen in a massive way with the release of Chinatown. The decadent and sprawling epic about a ...

Directed by star Jack Nicholson, "The Two Jakes" isn't just better than its reputation — it's better than its 1974 predecessor. Yes, 1974’s “Chinatown” is unquestionably one of the great films of its ...

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 Film ...

A trailblazer and two-time Oscar nominee, she also designed Julie Christie’s iconic black dress for ‘Shampoo’ and produced films with (and starring) Goldie Hawn. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor “Paul is ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriter and director whose Oscar-winning work in the 1974 film Chinatown enshrined him in Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. Towne died at his home on Monday, his ...