CHINATOWN

Here is one of the greatest Hollywood movies ever made.

  Jack Nicholson give a career-best performance an LA private eye who digs too deeply into the affairs of a mysterious woman (Faye Dunaway) who hires him to spy on her husband. It's a full-colour noir classic where the sun blazes on the surface and the darkness writhes inside. The movie's brilliance is perhaps mainly down to director Roman Polanski, who twists a crucial, tragic fatalism into Robert Towne's Oscar-winning script. Polanski and Towne lead us deep into an irresistible mystery that pitches a festering tangle of murders, lies and evil. Expect twists, turns, red herrings and revelations. Expect them to culminate in a shocking finale. Absolutely the finest thing that Nicholson, Polanski, Towne and producer Robert Evans will ever produce. Unforgettable. ---BBCi