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“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown”

10 October, 2008 (00:12) | Essays, Film Reviews, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[originally published in Movietone News no. 33, July 1974]

THE TITLES, shadow-masked to the old 1.33 format, roll up against a grey moderne background and give way to a series of black-and-white still photos. In the photos a man and a woman are making love, awkwardly, with their clothes on, in the woods. We hear [...]