Rivka and Frank are joined by The Lever’s Julia Rock for a conversation about the 1974 neo-noir classic Chinatown. The group unpacks the film’s near-perfect politics regarding institutional corruption, LA’s history of gentrification and real estate expropriation, and finally figures out what the “Chinatown” metaphor actually means. 

A rough transcript of the episode is available here.

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