We're going on vacation through the world of classic film! Yes, International Month is back. But unless the previous two years, where we did two movies from different countries, we're spending June in one country with a single director: Akira Kurosawa.

TCM host and author of the new book TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of World Cinema, Alicia Malone, joins us to kick things off with a look at one of several Kurosawa movies dubbed the best movie of all time. It's 1954's Seven Samurai. Kristen, Emily and Alicia explore the samurai genre, discuss this movie's influence on our conception of the American West, and thirst over Toshiro Mifune.

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You Must Remember This host Karina Longworth sits down with us to talk about the new season of her show, "The Old Man Is Still Alive." We discuss which directors weathered the collapse of the studio system best, why Stanley Donen's Blame It On Rio gets so much guff, and John Huston's third act celebration.

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Ali Moore

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Rachel Clark

Shawn Goodreau

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Chris McKay

Jacob Haller

Peter Blitstein

Peter Bryant

Peter Dawson

Reyna-Moya James

Bridget M. Hester

Cat Cooper

Daniel Tafoya

David Baxter

Diana Madden

Harry Holland

Jamie Carter

Karen Yoder

Lucy Soles

Nick Weerts

Richard Silver

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Another TCM Classic Film Festival has come and gone, but whether you were on the ground in LA or you couldn't make it, Ticklish Biz has you covered with some great audio from the festival.

We start off with Ben Mankiewicz, and Elle and Dakota Fanning introducing Michelle Pfeiffer at her hand and footprint ceremony. Then it's Alicia Malone and actor Barry Bostwick discussing The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Next Eddie Muller and Dana Gould improvise an intro for a chilly evening screening of I Love You Again (1940). And, finally, Michael Mann, Al Pacino and Ben Mankiewicz talk all about 1995's Heat!

You can listen to even more TCM Classic Film Festival audio, including Michele Pfeiffer's speech during her hand and footprint ceremony and Eddie Muller and Ernest Dickerson talking about 1955's The Big Combo exclusively on Patreon!

This episode was created thanks to our Patrons:

Ali Moore

Danny

David Floyd

Gates

McF

Rachel Clark

Shawn Goodreau

A Button Called Smalls

Chris McKay

Jacob Haller

Peter Blitstein

Peter Bryant

Peter Dawson

Reyna-Moya James

Bridget M. Hester

Cat Cooper

Daniel Tafoya

David Baxter

Diana Madden

Harry Holland

Jamie Carter

Karen Yoder

Lucy Soles

Nick Weerts

Richard Silver

Rosa