It's TCM Classic Film Festival time once again and we're back with a special bonus episode highlighting all our picks. Author Lara Gabrielle joins us as does Ava Gardner expert Lora Stocker to break down the questions we have about this year's festival (what does "corporate daddy" Warner Bros. Discovery have in store?) and the movies we aren't gonna miss.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: In light of the festival, our next episode will actually debut on May 1st. 

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Peter Blitstein

Peter Bryant

Peter Dawson

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Harry Holland

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It was a hard day's night getting this episode together after our guest backed out last minute. Thankfully, Emily is back and we're celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Beatles' cinematic debut in A Hard Day's Night. We talk about the Fab Four turned actors, the way this movie tried to sell a soundtrack, and far too many connections to Spice World.

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Chris McKay

Debbi Lynne

Jeffrey

Kayla Ewing

Nicholas Montano

Peter Blitstein

Peter Bryant

Peter Dawson

Susannah Burger

Andrea Basora

Brittany Brock

Cat Cooper

Daniel Tafoya

Diana Madden

Emily Edwards

Harry Holland

Lucy Soles

Nick Weerts

Rosa

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We're celebrating the dueling centennials of Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams with a look at their most enduring collaboration: 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire. Historian and author Foster Hirsch joins us to break down the film's complicated subject matter, Marlon Brando's Method acting, the gender and class politics and everyone's old friend, the Blacklist.

Buy Foster's book Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties here.

This episode was created thanks to our Patrons:

Ali Moore

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Danny

David Floyd

Donna Hill

Gates

Jacob Haller

Jonathan Watkins

Krista Painter

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Rachel Clark

A Button Called Smalls

Chris McKay

Debbi Lynne

Jeffrey

Kayla Ewing

Nicholas Montano

Peter Blitstein

Peter Bryant

Peter Dawson

Susannah Burger

Andrea Basora

Brittany Brock

Cat Cooper

Daniel Tafoya

Diana Madden

Emily Edwards

Harry Holland

Kerry Ahern

Lucy Soles

Nick Weerts

Rosa

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There are a few James Dean biopics but we decided to look at the most famous version of his life, TNT's 2001 biopic starring a pre-fame (and problems) James Franco. Kristen and Emily deconstruct the Dean mythos, why he holds a lot of commonalities with Marilyn Monroe, and how this movie was originally planned to star Leonardo DiCaprio.

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In this special bonus episode you can hear our interview with Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, as well as author Bruce Boyer, authors of Gary Cooper: Enduring Style.

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Happy New Year! We're sharing our favorite episode of our new series, But Have You Read... looking at that timeless tale of a young girl and the grown man who keeps a woman in his attic. Yep, we're looking at the two versions of Jane Eyre. 

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