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.
The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever
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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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June 24, 2026
1913 E3 - Julie K Allen
Julie K. Allen, professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905816871?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Screening Europe in Australasia</a>. So it makes sense that her selections, each from a different country, would embody the transnational dynamic of silent film just before the outbreak of World War I.<br /><br />Julie is also the author of <a href="https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295994833/icons-of-danish-modernity/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Icons of Danish Modernity</a>, <a href="https://uofupress.com/books/danish-but-not-lutheran/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Danish but Not Lutheran</a>, and The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/164014126X?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen</a>. She is currently working on a book about the Danish cinema license system with the tentative title The Cultural Politics of Film Exhibition.<br /><br /><b>Films and resources mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/88FeCs0bt5Q?si=GadpSo-tuVKrfLJ8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Quo Vadis (1913) - Enrico Guazzoni</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/DsbTA_-HPOU?si=V5-E5TmEK3M8MMvT" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Atlantis (1913) - August Blom</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cec4ZKDfQno&list=PLN3qpfIC3QLbCzj7ErFkZf1RxXgGk-LV5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fantômas (1913) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhvJown9kY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/6rsKbCw0Zns?si=vjnOTTIjZMsRP1-u" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Suffragette (1913) - Urban Gad</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/XeXmc3O1v6E?si=D4inw-DixOcSbdzW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad</a></li><li><a href="https://archive.org/details/silent-eighty-million-women-want--" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What 80 Million Women Want (1913) - Will Louis</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/Vc_rlniOZT4?si=0QowCkJZsRwPZfNF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Les misérables (1912) - Albert Capellani</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carter,_le_roi_des_d%C3%A9tectives" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nick Carter, le roi des détectives (1908) - Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgB4m3arSAw&list=PLE4-GbmYBfK9oJqvHc9xkzQ8-XLtQ2t7W&index=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Les Vampires (1915) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0DDLXkhpbo&list=PLRDH2PxPKp1-KdmULBJgoWVPImdgl7rEr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Judex (1916) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_from_the_Titanic" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Saved from the Titanic (1912) - Étienne Arnaud</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9VeI6JI9FA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Destiny (1921) - Fritz Lang</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/hzOk7hkDUew?si=VIaobJf5madSeuY5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Victor Sjöström</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyxznTjCho" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blind Justice (1916) - Benjamin Christensen</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJLxpHqo5g" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sealed Orders (1914) - Benjamin Christensen</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/5cyLQBLjii4?si=yhrD-VgpFJ0sJU8G" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Häxan (1922) - Benjamin Christensen</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiWk8KfTgA" target="_blank"...
June 17, 2026
1913 E2 - Shelley Stamp
This is the 100th episode and just two weeks past the second anniversary of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever! It’s a special episode made even more so by Shelley Stamp, Distinguished Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She literally wrote <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/lois-weber-in-early-hollywood/paper" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the book on Lois Weber</a> so it makes sense that pioneering filmmaker’s landmark 1913 film factors into the conversation, but all of Shelley's picks reflect the rapid development of American film grammar and stand in for women’s representation in front of and behind the camera, as well as their fights for equality in “real life.”<br /><br />Shelley is also the author of <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691044576/movie-struck-girls?srsltid=AfmBOorT7mGYyhdVaYev254IiZoSOS7w8_DclRFyejQHtG_kH2VdEJYQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon</a>. She curated the award-winning box set <a href="https://kinolorber.com/product/pioneers-first-women-filmmakers-dvd-1?srsltid=AfmBOoqFzBIyLFD6-bKdCu6AABhfWYsObnfxUBo-CNm0eZJk4JDaTNUn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers</a>.<br /><br /><b>Films mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://archive.org/details/silent-eighty-million-women-want--" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What 80 Million Women Want (1913) - Will Louis</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhvJown9kY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-czcnMC4n0A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A House Divided (1913) - Alice Guy-Blaché</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/J-ZDESCVt9I?si=RCec0jGWV_YfjT9R" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCRmjKTYQfs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913) - Francis J. Grandon</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/x-KHc63KaF4?si=0qfjIVvOTa2JHGFA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hypocrites (1915) - Lois Weber</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/W0GJWTnTNoI?si=T-B0LjA5rli6ac6r" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Perils of Pauline (1914) - Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9FSQewMHVyn0IOQDN9cFpL8m7pOyKtc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hazards of Helen (1914) - J.P. McGowan and J. Gunnis Davis</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdlCSMkbQCU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Exploits of Elaine (1914) - Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton, and Theodore Wharton</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLqRwd3j1c4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What Happened to Mary (1912) - Ashley Miller and Charles Brabin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cec4ZKDfQno&list=PLN3qpfIC3QLbCzj7ErFkZf1RxXgGk-LV5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fantômas (1913) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/kaLZ6sRPk2M?si=-pMvDWrzh2IsjGri" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. Griffith</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/Vg2YiWsa27U?si=Q3uYOE2H7bq6e83s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoes (1916) - Lois Weber</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice_(1914_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Merchant of Venice (1914) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/q76ZoAOWHJM?si=MbuC7aoLr0Dy_-UU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Consequences of Feminism (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/RGoezMD74zw?si=-CR6wmQ-R2jLOhO_" target="_blank"...
June 10, 2026
1913 E1 - A Milestone Year?
1913 is considered by many to be a milestone year in the development of film grammar and industry. And it perhaps is, as is set up by this context-setting introduction and the conversations with guests to come for this season!<br /><br />Visit <a href="https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list</a> to submit your own top five for 1913!<br /><br /><b>Films mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCRmjKTYQfs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913) - Francis J. Grandon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLqRwd3j1c4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What Happened to Mary (1912) - Ashley Miller and Charles Brabin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cec4ZKDfQno&list=PLN3qpfIC3QLbCzj7ErFkZf1RxXgGk-LV5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fantômas (1913) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhvJown9kY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVfzOCzUsc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Artist’s Dream (1913) - John Randolph Bray</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/IKkpzSRhMXs?si=u37GJK5WqGWr4-VI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Evidence of the Film (1913) - Lawrence Marston and Edwin Thanhouser</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/J-ZDESCVt9I?si=RCec0jGWV_YfjT9R" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley</a></li></ul>
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