“Forget it Jake, It’s Chinatown…” This is the final line of one of my all-time favourite movies. Jack Nicholson has never been better than as private detective Jake Gittes, who becomes embroiled with wealthy businessman John Huston and his estranged daughter Faye Dunaway in 1930’s Los Angeles. Roman Polanski’s classic neo-noir has a great sense…
The Two Jakes
This poster is the US one-sheet for the largely forgotten sequel to Chinatown. Chinatown is one of my all-time favourite movies. It is a fabulous evocation of a place and era, with a terrific twisty storyline, wonderful performances all round and a real sting in the tail. Chinatown wasn’t exactly crying out for a…