The Big Goodbye: “Chinatown” and the Last Years of Hollywood, by Sam Wasson Fabrice Ziolkowski April 2020 Book Reviews I’ve had a quasi-symbiotic relationship to Roman Polanski’s Chinatown ever since I first laid eyes on it in May 1974. It was at a preview screening of the film in Santa Barbara and I may be the first person to ...
Goodbye to Danièle Fabrice Ziolkowski October 2019 Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet I first met Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub sometime in 1975 when they came to show some of their films at UC Santa Barbara where I was an undergraduate film student. The evening began with some 100 stude...
