{"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":"1912 E4 - Marsha Gordon","slug":"1912-e4-marsha-gordon","published_at":"2026-05-13T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1912-e4-marsha-gordon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1912-e4-marsha-gordon--71980391","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71980391/1912_e4_marsha_gordon.mp3","summary":"Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, mostly highlights two directors credited with advancing film narrative with four picks. But she also sings the praises of a certain work of stop-motion animation, one taking this season by storm for both guests’ and listeners’ submissions. Marsha is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott , Film, Form & Culture (with Robert Kolker), and Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Films . She is currently writing a biography of the pioneering Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner. Films mentioned: Falling Leaves (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché Making an American Citizen (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - D.W. Griffith The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. Griffith The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) - Wladyslaw Starewicz The Divorcee (1930) - Robert Z. Leonard Next Time We Love (1936) - Edward H. Griffith The Immigrant (1917) - Charlie Chaplin The Brutalist (2024) - Brady Corbet The Consequences of Feminism (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché The Lonedale Operator (1911) - D.W. Griffith The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Mervyn LeRoy The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter Gangs of New York (2002) - Martin Scorsese Regeneration (1915) - Raoul Walsh Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton","meta_description":"Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, mostly highlights two directors credited with advancing film narrative with f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3415,"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/1912-e4-marsha-gordon/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-6929535/1912-e4-marsha-gordon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}