Ranked among the "Best Movies of All Time," "Chinatown" remains the gold standard for mystery and noir storytelling.

For those who weren’t around to have witnessed Towne’s transformative impact on American cinema in the 1970s, it’s fair to say that he brought reality to an industry built on fantasy. That didn’t stop ...

NEW YORK — Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define the ...

I'm not really sure how I escaped my film school education without watching Chinatown, but it's one that's been on my ever-growing, never-ending watchlist for quite some time. The only things I knew ...

The movie business grew up in the pages of Variety. There is no more comprehensive chronicle of film history than Variety – hands down, no contest, case closed. This gallery backs up that bold ...