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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August 12, 2026
1914 E3 - Elyse Singer
Elyse Singer, <a href="https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/elyse-s-singer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lecturer in the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College</a>, selects a wide range of forms and genres for her five picks of 1914, from short comedy to serial action to epic tales (one historically dramatic and the other perhaps the first feature comedy). At least two relate to her recent research in female madness in film and the agency of women in serials of the time.<br /><br />Elyse has also taught at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at CUNY and NYU Tisch. Her work has been published in Cinematic Explorations of the Mind, The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science, Faces on Screen, Feminist Media Histories, and Domitor’s Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema.<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 1914!<br /><br /><b>Films and resources mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/gOWicOwtHa8?si=6DJfB90q7Tu-uJHG" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni Pastrone</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/36v8vXM3RXE?si=F1be7k0_i1FoFvS_" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack Sennett</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2ZUSTw7IY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fantômas (1914) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/W0GJWTnTNoI?si=U63SuT6WPZlafUnM" 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/watch?v=hCbjkyvYBsM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence Turner</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMUPZYT3Ek" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Ernst Lubitsch</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVWM4IycWW8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Photographing a Female Crook (1904) - Wallace McCutcheon</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/0YCqkam_MX4?si=w-0iK1KEUK0mpWNn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Laughing Gas (1907) - Edwin S. Porter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTbGtV9Zpk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Panther (2018) - Ryan Coogler</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5dO-WRz4K0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Woman Warrior White Rose (1929) - Zhang Huimin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE4-GbmYBfK9oJqvHc9xkzQ8-XLtQ2t7W" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Les Vampires (1915) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346107/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Violin (1908) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/iCxaK_bGaDs?si=rqaf91SE5IHRgots" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tih Minh (1918) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCeu3BRvuk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0135366496?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me - Lillian Gish</a></li><li><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/specters-of-slapstick-and-silent-film-comediennes/9780231179478/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes - Maggie Hennefeld</a></li><li><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/23135" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film” - Tom Gunning</a></li></ul>
August 5, 2026
1914 E2 - Susan Potter
Susan Potter, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney, wrote the book <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=susan+potter+queer+timing&oq=susan+potter+queer+timing&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MggIARAAGBYYHjIHCAIQABjvBTIHCAMQABjvBTIHCAQQABjvBdIBCDQwMzFqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema</a>. While its scope is broader than any one year, and just one of Susan’s 1914 selections is referenced within it, she also mostly highlights female agency and subversion before and behind the screen with her picks.<br /><br />Susan’s research investigates the relation of cinema as modern mass medium to the intensification of sexuality since the late nineteenth century and audiovisual media's role in queer identity and culture formation. Their essay on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SL_4Pg_60" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Filibus (1915)</a> is forthcoming in <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-silent-film-companion/9781978840201" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Silent Film Companion: A Recovered and Expanded History</a>, edited by (former guests!) <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UjaetWg1iN8OZm0yQV3SG?si=fb9b91cfb8ab4e6a" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Martin Johnson</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0l9hCiDCzi3OojiHpHNnqt?si=2d67e82637ca4d7d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Liz Clarke</a>.<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 1914!<br /><br /><b>Films and resources mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/W0GJWTnTNoI?si=U63SuT6WPZlafUnM" 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/watch?v=hy2ZUSTw7IY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fantômas (1914) - Louis Feuillade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1mi1Svh6rg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Florida Enchantment (1914) - Sidney Drew</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXpfD_2BQEI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914) - Mabel Normand</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhVui4rKV8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry Lehrman</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRsnwm6JVeE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pandora’s Box (1929) - G.W. Pabst</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/l5SL_4Pg_60?si=rL3XdyUaeI_EDlb6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Filibus (1915) - Mario Roncoroni</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5GWneKsyM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoulder Arms (1918) - Charlie Chaplin</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/rU0RQrqcrmo?si=yPed4BF96DGmtmzF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Tramp (1915) - Charlie Chaplin</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/coA8P45TIaU?si=k6s8ctr0YhTsdD0X" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">One A.M. (1916) - Charlie Chaplin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSTM9GbpQ_Y" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mabel’s Dramatic Career (1913) - Mack Sennett</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/7kkBoaW448s?si=rw_v6SFgstC3G0Rv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mädchen in Uniform (1931) - Leontine Sagan</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMf72nW02eU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gilda (1946)...
July 29, 2026
1914 E1 - The Great War Begins
The event that has been foreshadowed the past few seasons comes to pass in 1914: the Great War, or World War I. And while not every facet of the conversations this season relates back to the disruption of the film industry that ensued (to say nothing of the disruption of every other aspect of life), it certainly looms large and provides context for filmmaking language and industrial developments in this year and to come through at least the end of the decade.<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 1914!<br /><br /><b>Films mentioned:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life's_Shop_Window" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Life’s Shop Window (1914) - J. Gordon Edwards</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/e9Es2JQLN_8?si=-Rcsyd_8JWHeG5ay" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Making a Living (1914) - Henry Lehrman</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/H0JacFUP99Y?si=zQlQOHjeJ6m0jb4w" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry Lehrman</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/pJ7UMKDjN7A?si=JBIE4vParE2PXZuE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMille</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/ghYhL-gv8rU?si=G50Tb8YQjfhZ7N_U" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Judith of Bethulia (1914) - D.W. Griffith</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/36v8vXM3RXE?si=PcgOsrvWtbShlkRA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack Sennett</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/gOWicOwtHa8?si=HrAmYxM_W9bc7shD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni Pastrone</a></li></ul>
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