Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson Irish Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book

Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book of 2020' is now available in paperback -it is an immersive look at the making of 'Chinatown' and an investigation into the lives of the key players/outsized personalities who brought it to the screen: Roman Polanski

theatricality and multiple realities are examined

gravity-defying cinematography by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator Sergei Urusevsky

in their isolation the two women's personalities merge

unsettling psychological horror

Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson Irish Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book'The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood' by Sam Wasson (397 page paperback) Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book of 2020' is now available in paperback it is an immersive look at the making of 'Chinatown' and an investigation into the lives of the key players outsized personalities who brought it to the screen: Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Robert Evans and Robert Towne. The film is also framed as marking the end of filmmaker