{"podcast":{"title":"The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever","slug":"the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","podcast_index_feed_id":6929535,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6184358/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6b6cd6b7a59220c5f78e360e315d1fe9.jpg","author":"Tristan Ettleman","episode_count":105,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:17:39.934373+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535"},"episode":{"title":"1909 E5 - Yuki Irikura","slug":"1909-e5-yuki-irikura","published_at":"2025-12-24T07:00:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1909-e5-yuki-irikura","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1909-e5-yuki-irikura--69185331","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69185331/1909_e5_yuki_irikura.mp3","summary":"Yuki Irikura, Assistant Professor at Waseda University, mostly selects D.W. Griffith films for her 1909 list, reflecting the director’s growing powers and appeal. She concludes, however, with old-school tricks and the debut of Japan’s first film star. Yuki’s research focuses on Japanese and American silent film history. She earned her Ph.D. in February 2024 with a dissertation on Bluebird Photoplays, examining the company’s production of five-reel feature films, their popularity in Japan, and the contributions of the company’s female filmmakers and actresses. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1909! Films mentioned: Those Awful Hats (1909) - D.W. Griffith The Country Doctor (1909) - D.W. Griffith Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909) - D.W. Griffith Whimsical Illusions (1909) - Georges Méliès Goban Tadanobu (1909) - Shôzô Makino A Corner in Wheat (1909) - D.W. Griffith True Heart Susie (1919) - D.W. Griffith The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming Hugo (2011) - Martin Scorsese Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang Jiraiya the Hero (1921) - Shôzô Makino Orochi (1925) - Buntarō Futagawa","meta_description":"Yuki Irikura, Assistant Professor at Waseda University, mostly selects D.W. Griffith films for her 1909 list, reflecting the director’s growing powers and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3126,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/episodes/1909-e5-yuki-irikura/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1909-e5-yuki-irikura.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}