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1900 E1 - The Beginning of a Century
Season 2 Episode 1
The second season of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever narrows down from the decade-plus of the first down to just one calendar year. The first yea…
2 years ago
The 1800s E7 - The End of a Century
Season 1 Episode 7
Invented within the last decade or so of the 1800s, "cinema" (a fluid definition not owed to any one person or group as this season has demonstrated)…
2 years ago
The 1800s E6 - Peter Domankiewicz
Season 1 Episode 6
Peter Domankiewicz is a film director (Tea & Sangria), screenwriter, and journalist with a long-standing interest in the origins of cinema. That inte…
2 years, 1 month ago
The 1800s E5 - Bryony Dixon
Season 1 Episode 5
Bryony Dixon is the curator of silent film at the BFI National Archive and her picks for the 1800s reflect that expertise. Bryony discusses five Brit…
2 years, 1 month ago
The 1800s E4 - Maggie Hennefeld
Season 1 Episode 4
Maggie Hennefeld, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has literally written the boo…
2 years, 1 month ago
The 1800s E3 - Aurore Spiers
Season 1 Episode 3
As a feminist film historian and scholar, Aurore Spiers (she/her) is mainly focused on women’s contributions to film, with her work interrogating his…
2 years, 1 month ago
The 1800s E2 - J.J. DiUbaldi
Season 1 Episode 2
As the first guest of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever and its 1800s season, writer and avid "prehistoric" film watcher J.J. DiUbaldi explores sou…
2 years, 1 month ago
The 1800s E1 - The Invention of Cinema
Season 1 Episode 1
Welcome to The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever. Ahead of guests and listeners sharing their picks for the first decade or so of cinema up until the e…
2 years, 2 months ago