Category: Film Club
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Chinatown (1974)
In the sunlit streets of 1930s Los Angeles, a routine investigation exposes a world of corruption, power and buried secrets. Roman Polanski’s Chinatown takes the familiar conventions of film noir and turns them inside out, creating a mystery in which discovering the truth may be the least difficult part.
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The Third Man (1949)
In postwar Vienna, American writer Holly Martins arrives to meet an old friend, only to find himself drawn into a city of secrets, suspicion and divided loyalties. Carol Reed’s The Third Man uses the shadows of occupied Vienna to explore friendship, moral uncertainty and the uneasy distance between appearances and reality.