{"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 E6 - Paul Flaig","slug":"1909-e6-paul-flaig","published_at":"2025-12-31T07:00:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1909-e6-paul-flaig","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1909-e6-paul-flaig--69252359","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69252359/1909_e6_paul_flaig.mp3","summary":"Paul Flaig, Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews, wrote a stellar synthesis of disciplines with his new book Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed . While it clearly deals with a later period than 1909, he still works German and American (and French!) comedy into his picks, in addition to a sound novelty and an actuality with a connection to Franz Kafka. Paul is also the co-editor, with Katherine Groo, of New Silent Cinema and co-director, with Dora Osborne, of the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) . His writing has appeared in many journals and edited collections, including Cinema Journal, Screen, Camera Obscura, animation, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS). Films and resources mentioned: Klebolin Sticks to Everything (1909) - Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers Those Awful Hats (1909) - D.W. Griffith The Happy Microbes (1909) - Émile Cohl What Is a Flag (1909) - Alice Guy-Blaché First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia (1909) - unknown Rain (1929) - Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens Good Glue Sticks (1907) - Georges Méliès A Sticky Woman (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) - Louis Lumière At the Crossroads of Life (1908) - D.W. Griffith Miller’s Crossing (1990) - Joel and Ethan Coen Fantasmagorie (1908) - Émile Cohl Brains Repaired (1911) - Émile Cohl The Yawner (1907) - Segundo de Chomón Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) - Marshall Neilan Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (1910-1924) - Frank B. Gilbreth Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive - Katherine Groo “Women's Hats and Silent Film Spectatorship: Between Ostrich Plume and Moving Image” - Maggie Hennefeld Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film - Donald Crafton Kafka Goes to the Movies…","meta_description":"Paul Flaig, Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews, wrote a stellar synthesis of disciplines with his new book Weimar Slapstick and Hollywoo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3504,"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-e6-paul-flaig/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-e6-paul-flaig.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}