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.
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#180: Some Like It Hot (1959 with Elisa Jordan)
#179: The Heiress (1949 with Lara Gabrielle)
#178: The Long Hot Summer (1958 with Shawn Levy)
#177: New Discoveries of 2023
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#174: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (with Drew Taylor, 1937)
#173: Cry Havoc (1943 with Drea Clark)
#172: The Hustler (Piper Laurie Tribute, 1961)
#171: Funny Girl (1968 with Talia Lavin)
#169: Dracula (1931 with David J. Skal)
#170: All About Eve (1950 with Sloan De Forest)
#168: Casablanca (1942 with Chris Yogerst)
#167: High Society (1956)
#166: Good News (1947) with Cinco Paul
#165: All the President’s Men (1976) with The Projection Booth
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