Episode 8: Chinatown (1974)
Aug 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min
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Episode description
Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) is considered one of New Hollywood’s crowning glories, and a film that afforded Jack Nicholson his first traditional leading man role. In Episode 8 of EveryMan: The Masculinity in Cinema Podcast, film critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio discuss Nicholson’s performance as a dandyish private investigator out of his depth, the film’s gut-wrenching pessimism, and its anti-nostalgic view of 1930s Los Angeles.
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