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The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest...
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The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest every week to dive into the history and beauty of some of the best movies to ever come out of the cinematic medium.
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20 NOV 2024 · A Trip to the Moon looms large in looking at the picture of 1902 in film. Georges Méliès' masterpiece is inarguably the most famous film of the early cinema period. But as will be explored by this season's guests, its part in reshaping the aesthetics, genres, and industrialization of the global film community exists alongside another version of film history.
Films mentioned:
- https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=6xCl5LjokVmlddp4
6 NOV 2024 · Propaganda, comedy, tricks; these approaches may seem to obscure truths. That is certainly their potential in film, but in this 1901 season finale, Tristan reflects on the through lines of his guests' picks and the conversations that stemmed from them.
Also, he shares his personal five selections for 1901 and puts together the collective list of guest and listener submissions. That list, including all films submitted for the season, can be found at https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list.
The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1902 coming soon!
Thank you to the guests of the third season:
- https://ianchristie.org/
- https://silentlondon.co.uk/
- https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/film-studies/people/academic/profiles/ingravalle.html
- Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi
- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-lawrence-napper
Films mentioned:
- https://youtu.be/o5KsSMMNKps?si=2KOsIajJ24FF8Hev
- https://youtu.be/yqufG89Jlyc?si=TeoC_NUtdhnvN3aU
- https://youtu.be/vk9YHrE0328?si=cKzDBsAsk4TdirJe
- https://youtu.be/yb51XyvFQ5A?si=52IDelFdikp6reQP
- https://youtu.be/KLRQ8ElrEoU?si=LfXRpi7QQaZc2UTw
- https://youtu.be/WFxZbg0Oz80?si=1fbJ95Mg42fXf53-
- https://youtu.be/7c7pcxnakzE?si=jtGj5rau4TzQ6a1V
- https://youtu.be/Jmonhj7ka6o?si=9X-ZNN4pMnMyhm_l
- https://youtu.be/O9Mk-B7MKP8?si=LfpbYMtvhvaEptOk
30 OCT 2024 · All but one of the picks from Lawrence Napper, senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London, come from the huge trove of discovered Mitchell & Kenyon films. These fascinating records of everyday life in Victorian and Edwardian England and the United Kingdom lead to an array of exciting tangents, while Lawrence also uses his one fictional choice to make a resonant comparison between repeat film viewing and traditional religious ceremonies.
Lawrence’s publications include https://www.amazon.com/Great-Popular-British-Cinema-1920s-ebook/dp/B00YN31WA2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (2015) and https://cup.columbia.edu/book/silent-cinema/9780231181174 (2017). He is a regular on the https://www.kinoquickies.com/ and occasionally blogs at https://atthepictures.photo.blog/. Currently he is developing a book length study of https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-opening-of-the-new-benton-bank-tram-route-1913-online (1913). Lawrence also hosts the annual British Silent Film Festival Symposium each spring at King’s College London.
Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1901!
Films and resources mentioned:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpU4DgefFPo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRQ8ElrEoU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XPJ2RcavI
- https://youtu.be/O9Mk-B7MKP8?si=pVbj5AUNbO1FTPaY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJC7S3_4yg&t=1s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrl3LgQUQrI&t=1s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVRRizl0PA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCm51fg5hpk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6d-Tnf9ehg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KsSMMNKps&t=1s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6t5--nQAo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6mvHZU0fc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZ8mRh5488
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfv7xdQdbUY
- https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916268/movies-under-the-influence/
23 OCT 2024 · Tristan has been the grateful viewer of many an eye-popping restoration fromhttps://www.youtube.com/@eyefilmNL. He expresses his thanks to Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Curator of Silent Film at Eye, before the two mostly discuss comedy films, with the broad genre nevertheless inspiring many different tangents from sexuality to the beginning of the film industry’s self-parody.
Elif has worked on the discovery, restoration, and presentation of presumed lost films starring forgotten or neglected actresses such as Rosa Porten, Little Chrysia, Valeria Creti, and Constance Talmadge. She is directly involved with the programs of international archival festivals Il Cinema Ritrovato and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and other events dedicated to silent cinema. Elif is also one of three curators of https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-first-nasty-women-blu-ray, a DVD box set of 99 films.
Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1901!
Films mentioned:
- https://youtu.be/BPQxQFHRwlA?si=8HQ_JkLDwEuBYw1z
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjtWmYtXvQ0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siRZDCDgUAo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbB3pGi9u8A
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb51XyvFQ5A
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCeu3BRvuk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSntDDpk0-k
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_ioXKuxoQ
16 OCT 2024 · Grazia Ingravalle, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Film at Queen Mary University of London, focuses her 1901 picks in relation to colonialism. She creatively tackles the premise of this show by talking not of the “best films” of the year, but “quite the opposite,” in her own words, to illustrate the effect of the medium at this time and beyond.
Grazia has published about film archives, digitization, archival remix, colonial histories, and decolonization in several edited volumes and in The Moving Image, Screen, and the JCMS. Her monograph, https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463725675/archival-film-curatorship (also very relevant to the “tension” of this show) came out in December 2023. She serves as Vice-President of https://domitor.org/: The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema.
Note: apologies for Tristan’s audio quality. It’s cleaned up as much as possible but it was captured in an inferior state!
Films mentioned:
- Hands Off the Flag (1901) - unknown
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ls4mV51Yk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DfIEXqEwI
- https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F2464/
- https://youtu.be/J8FLeQpeVT8?si=KwMoOhyr5-ZbVbgM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtiJH3EOHo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxl9Gi2jIM
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9 OCT 2024 · Pamela Hutchinson's https://silentlondon.co.uk/ has been a great resource for Tristan since even before he started the written essay series that gives this podcast its name about seven years ago. Now, she joins the show to provide some context yet again, especially for how 1901 filmmakers weren't marching neatly toward narrative (they were tiptoeing toward it, dancing around it) and how some were specifically deconstructing the still-fledgling medium, through the lens of her five picks.
https://pamhutch.wordpress.com/about/. Among her publications are two installments in the BFI Film Classics series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844579662/ and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes-9781839026065/.
Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1901!
Films and resources mentioned:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRQ8ElrEoU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk9YHrE0328
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqufG89Jlyc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KsSMMNKps
- https://youtu.be/JuXYwF5JOj8?si=GrqCfDVv21fC7Wfs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRV6LPtRUyc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSBzK93EkM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSQxXDcafQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTeCWbF8KY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVo5kLt_-BU
- The Mountain Eagle - Alfred Hitchcock (1926)
- London After Midnight - Tod Browning (1927)
- The Dairy Maid's Revenge - Frederick S. Armitage (1899)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfL80zC1tug
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxg6XxFPTcc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz1FrtMIh5c
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzDCU96nyYY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtyo3Tbljv8
- https://youtu.be/O9Mk-B7MKP8?si=8prvn8modq5tSgw1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbETb471Jkc
- https://youtu.be/LGKs13BH3ys?si=WXF80JBigasBT18I
- https://youtu.be/3wtFm19GXZc?si=GAL1VOECFxBIcPZe
- https://youtu.be/57SrYj32vmE?si=7HouVrCBzjYQ1fxr
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAzFWu2tVw
2 OCT 2024 · Film historian Ian Christie rewires Tristan’s brain a bit in this episode, as Ian draws parallels between the early film “adaptation” and the tableaux painting, both of which benefit from contemporary shared pathos. During the discussion of his five picks, among other things, he also provides insight into the Anglo-Boer War and the actuality genre’s dominance in 1901 even as trick films still draw our contemporary eyes.
Ian is an author and https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/#overview. Among his many works are the book https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo24296232.html (2019) and the TV production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ri0z8fYRvM (1995), both of which are discussed in this episode.
Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1901!
Films and resources mentioned:
- https://youtu.be/dmEcxE0MPgM?si=AC4zZCup4-QSKr5a
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpWtyT1nxM
- https://youtu.be/o5KsSMMNKps?si=p6gFK5b46VOm4o8_
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqufG89Jlyc
- https://youtu.be/gbVhODAc2xg?si=YQQJYAdts0lJN4ND
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSBzK93EkM
- https://youtu.be/O9Mk-B7MKP8?si=hSglq5ma2ZYGw23i
- https://youtu.be/Dc3ei1tseeM?si=v2pT8yiI4hmXSLdi
- https://youtu.be/Hv3obL9HqyY?si=BvycEZLrudC9dwF-
- https://youtu.be/kgjOnEAsOwA?si=q8YMvQMFM2J3n2lp
25 SEP 2024 · About five years into film's existence as a publicly available invention and art form, 1901 offers up a number of exciting threads for where the medium did and did not go. Some aspects may appear familiar: a form of a "close-up," attempts at adapting "narrative," and the use of the movies as a propaganda tool.
But as guests will point out, the intent and reception of such things may be alien to our modern eyes, from the idea of a moving picture "tableaux" to colonizing forces. Join host Tristan Ettleman for an exploration of 1901 with The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever!
You can submit your own top five films for 1901 at https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list.
Films mentioned:
- https://youtu.be/MfXc_5hpIq4?si=eBSToTpG5_v_6ed2
- https://youtu.be/o5KsSMMNKps?si=gXd1TUf_AENwPpfL
- https://youtu.be/O9Mk-B7MKP8?si=7jKVdXoyLXLKcGCX
- https://youtu.be/ucyE9GT1R_E?si=thrwDZrvHlrrxdkm
11 SEP 2024 · Although this season has emphasized that the sudden transition into the 20th century didn't magically advance the still very young art form of cinema, the films selected by the guests for the 1900 edition of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever represent exciting developments. Color, sound, trickery, medicine, animation, and the ever-present regret that so many films from this era are lost were recurring themes in the conversations throughout the season.
In this finale, host Tristan Ettleman briefly summarizes these themes, shares his five picks for 1900, and creates a high-level list from guests' and listeners' picks. That list, including all films submitted for the season, can be found at https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list.
The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1901 begins soon!
Thank you to the guests of the second season:
- https://x.com/malcolmcook76
- https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/mpsolo
- https://www.uu.nl/staff/FEKessler
- https://www.ccsu.edu/person/carolyn-jacobs
- https://x.com/vitascopian
Films mentioned:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1PMlCsHKs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWJiwtMemA
- https://youtu.be/BC4xgu40da8?si=DCzPAXSi4vcA_7Sl
- https://youtu.be/sXXwV2M8AWo?si=AgkORE6CKabjlGkE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDf8ixdipqw
- https://youtu.be/vJwQy-DhV2s?si=CfDiVRqHI2bNqNcb
- https://youtu.be/2kLCaP-AxGk?si=Wpx11sHDyOpgL7FK
- https://youtu.be/47qRYJVIl9k?si=6MKX1haZssCanr7e
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOLw8V0AIHY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmg3lqHuDo
4 SEP 2024 · The affinity Enri Ceballos has for dance is intensely represented by his picks for 1900, four of which feature the sheer joy of human movement. Both in front of and behind the screen, these films (all French and helmed by women!) also represent the diversity of gender and sexuality at play, along with sound and color technologies, in early cinema's history.
Enri is the General Director for the https://x.com/ficsilente, a PhD student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a member of https://www.wfhi.org/.
Films and resources mentioned:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhD5CVEijk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04QiBt3kTYU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcIxOineoc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqnldTwcJI
- https://youtu.be/47qRYJVIl9k?si=lxwlfzJV4tx_7FlM
- https://youtu.be/BC4xgu40da8?si=mbD43lmXruVKj7gE
- https://youtu.be/vJwQy-DhV2s?si=PYljczEVggzXCGGa
- https://wfpp.columbia.edu/2019/10/17/do-you-believe-in-fairies-cabbages-victorian-memes-and-the-birth-of-cinema-seeing-sapphic-sexuality-in-the-silent-era/
The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest...
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The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest every week to dive into the history and beauty of some of the best movies to ever come out of the cinematic medium.
show less
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| Author | Tristan Ettleman |
| Organization | Tristan Ettleman |
| Categories | Film History , TV & Film , Film Reviews |
| Website | www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com |
| trettleman@gmail.com |
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