{"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":"1913 E5 - Paul Gagliardi","slug":"1913-e5-paul-gagliardi","published_at":"2026-07-08T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1913-e5-paul-gagliardi","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1913-e5-paul-gagliardi--72856028","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72856028/1913_e5_paul_gagliardi.mp3","summary":"Paul Gagliardi, Teaching Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, selects almost entirely comedy shorts for his 1913 highlights, although they connect with his proto-expressionist feature pick in that they all contain morbid underbellies. And diving into the comic commentary of these works, intended or not, reflects a few things about audience reception to movies and politics of the time. Paul is the author of All Play and No Work: The Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project . His website is paul-gagliardi.com . Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1913! Films and resources mentioned: A House Divided (1913) - Alice Guy-Blaché The Student of Prague (1913) - Stellan Rye Fatty Joins the Force (1913) - George Nichols Cohen Saves the Flag (1913) - Mack Sennett Mabel’s Dramatic Career (1913) - Mack Sennett The Brutalist (2024) - Brady Corbet The Jazz Singer (1927) - Alan Crosland Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton The Battle of Gettysburg (1913) - Charles Giblyn and Thomas Ince My Dinner with Andre (1981) - Louis Malle By the Sea (1915) - Charlie Chaplin The Cook (1918) - Roscoe Arbuckle Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915) - Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand The Round-Up (1920) - George Melford Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau Faust (1926) - F.W. Murnau Grease (1978) - Randal Kleiser The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup - Jonathan Wilson","meta_description":"Paul Gagliardi, Teaching Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, selects almost entirely comedy shorts for his 1913 highlights, although t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2526,"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/1913-e5-paul-gagliardi/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-6929535/1913-e5-paul-gagliardi.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}