Writing
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934 - July 1, 2024) was an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films. Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988), and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Titles
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Suspect Zero
2004
The Pick-up Artist
1987
Shampoo
1975
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Cadillac Desert
1997
Salinger
2013
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Drive, He Said
1971
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Last Woman on Earth
1960
Halloween Monster Bash
1991
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
The Zodiac Killer
1971
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001
Making of Chinatown
2007
Robert Towne