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Ahoy there, ya eejits!  We're back to discuss everyone's favourite "Whale gets angry and goes on a violent rampage" blockbuster: ORCA.  Rob chose this.

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Camp counselors Jackie and Greg sit around the fire for Roger Corman's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH from 1964. Topics of discussion include Vincent Price's delicious performance, the higher pedigree of talent involved compared to Corman's other work, the film's frank treatment of satanism, and how it's basically a camp version of Bergman or Powell and Pressburger.

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Chinatown is a great movie, directed by an evil man, and I wrote an essay about it for school and now I will read it to you. It's either that or you don't get an episode this week.

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Jackie and Greg take on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for their episode on Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN. Topics of discussion include J.J. Gittes as a quintessential New Hollywood protagonist, great works by problematic artists (and whether separating the art from the artist is possible), the impeccably twisty script from Robert Towne, their personal relationships with the city of Los Angeles, and why it continues to endure as a shining example of neo-noir.

#78 on Sight & Sound's 2012 "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time" list.
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Vom großen Krimi-Klassiker des New-Hollywood-Kinos zum vergessenen Geheimtipp: 16 Jahre nach Roman Polanskis CHINATOWN kam eine Fortsetzung der Geschichte um Privatdetektiv Jake Gittes heraus – THE TWO JAKES, im Deutschen eher vage mit DIE SPUR FÜHRT ZURÜCK betitelt. Jack Nicholson spielte noch einmal den Schnüffler, der erneut in eine labyrinthische Geschichte rund um persönliche und […]

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Robert Towne writes and directs a glossy film about a heroic coke dealer and his best friends, an LA cop and a Mexican drug lord.

Written & Directed by Robert Towne. Starring Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Raul Julia, J.T. Walsh, Arliss Howard, Arye Gross & Budd Boetticher

How is the world wrong about “Tequila Sunrise”?

From Andras: This whole enterprise is pretty wrong and yet, the performances (from Gibson, Julia & Pfieffer) and its amoral drives make it compelling in ways that few films can match. Kurt Russell in particular is in top form. This might be the performance that demands the most of him as an actor.

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Jack Nicholson directs and stars in the sequel to “Chinatown”.

Directed by Jack Nicholson. Written by Robert Towne. Produced by Robert Evans. Starring Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Madeline Stowe, Meg Tilly, Ruben Blades, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth & Tracy Walter

How is the world wrong about “The Two Jakes”?

From Andras: You’d think people would be into a Roman Polanski-less “Chinatown” sequel but they were not. Nicholson manages to give us a continuation of Robert Towne’s detective story about the evolution of Los Angeles that is simultaneously sleazier AND more compassionate than the original. If the world had been a little less wrong about this film we might’ve got a third installment, all about pollution and the LA freeway which, as Bryan points out in the episode, is kind of the plot of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”? which may be the closest we’ll get to the completion of the Chinatown series.

Here’s the JJ Gittes site I referenced on the podcast as a resource for the information I shared: http://j-j-gittes.blogspot.com/

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Zo is offered a mission. Should he choose to accept it he'll be required to follow the exploits of the IMF agent Ethan Hunt who has been disavowed by the U.S. government and accused of working with the enemy and killing his team. Ethan must clear his name and keep dangerous secrets from falling into the wrong hands.

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Zum Auftakt unserer sechsten Staffel kümmern wir uns um einen der komplexesten Kriminalfälle der Filmgeschichte: CHINATOWN. Der 1974 erschienene Film, inszeniert von Roman Polanski mit Jack Nicholson in der Hauptrolle, zählt zu den größten Krimi- und New-Hollywood-Klassikern der Filmgeschichte. In unserem Gespräch gehen wir auf die Entstehung des Films ein, auf die historischen Hintergründe rund […]

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We're joined by someone who actually knows a hell of a lot about the sporting film we're revisiting.  Racing commentator Jake Sanson has chosen 1990's DAYS OF THUNDER to revisit, so he obviously knows about the cars, the racing, the racers, etc.  All Rob & Chris know about is the rubbin'.

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Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown... OR IS IT?!

It is. And it's also a landmark artwork that changed the face of cinema forever. And we're not just talkin' about what it did to its nose! 

In fact, you can still feel its influence all over what director Matt Reeves is doing with The Batman, so in this mini-marathon called Bat Signals, Matt, Alex, and Rocco dig into this tangled web of inspiration that lead us to this new DC comic book film.

But before all that, it's time to talk Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Robert Towne, and the wet n' wild world of Los Angeles in the 1930s. It's Chinatown, people!

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