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Chinatown
February 9, 2016, 7:00 PM
$6
In the midst of Roman Polanski’s truly great private eye film, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway and set in 1930s Los Angeles, lies a cogent ecological tale based on the city’s true history of its most precious commodity: not glamour, but water. Made with a huge production budget and looking like 100 million dollars, Chinatown is also, amazingly, a savage and absolutely uncompromising depiction of the pure evil of capitalism. But all of that occurs only under the surface of a mystery that Nicholson’s detective J.J. Gittes stumbles onto when his services are engaged by Dunaway’s beautiful but elusive woman of mystery. Nominated for 11 Oscars, Chinatown looks more and more like one of the great movies of all time.
Digital DCP print. (R, 130 min., 1974)
Tickets: $10, $6 for students & Maine Film Center members
Founded by The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, Science on Screen℠ is a program designed to expand both film and scientific literacy by creatively pairing screenings of classic, cult, and documentary films with lively presentations by notable science and technology experts.
About the Guest Speaker:
With a long and diverse career spanning business development and public service in the areas of government, international trade, finance, marketing, small business management, entrepreneurship, education, public policy and community organizing, Jim Wilfong is the person most responsible for publicizing the complex issues of water in Maine. Four years on the Natural Resources Committee in the Maine legislature expanded his long-term interest in environmental issues; and during his stint as President Clinton’s assistant trade secretary, he noted that good drinking water was always among the top three issues in countries he worked with. In 2004, Gov. Baldacci asked Wilfong to join the Citizens Trade Policy Commission and in 2006 asked him to serve as the citizens’ representative on Maine’s Groundwater Task Force Committee, chartered to review groundwater policies. Recommendations from this Task Force produced new groundwater legislation in the 123rd Maine legislature. Wilfong is probably best known for his tireless work as founder, organizer and executive director of “H2O for ME,” a citizen’s environmental group active in water resource issues.