Locator: 50994CHINATOWN.
The Big Goodbye, Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Sam Wasson, c. 2020.
I have finished this book. Notes are kept here but need to be updated. I have written much more but the notes need to be transcribed into the blog.
The story of the movie, Chinatown. Not much discussion of the "last years of Hollywood" except as noted in the filming of the movie itself.
This is a very difficult book to read, on several levels, but it's a book that will stick with me for quite some time. I do not recommend it except for real cinephiles, and even then, for a very select audience.
I'm using Gemini (chatbot built on Google architecture) to augment what I've read and am now reading The Man Who Made The Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, Vanda Krefft, c. 2017; 927 pages. I picked his book up several years ago during my "Hollywood" phase but never finished it.
Roger Ebert, link here. A typical review.
Maybe my favorite movie of this genre.