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BEST LOVED FILMS

Daniel Smith-Rowsey

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This podcast augments and supplements the Best Loved Films site, taking listeners on a film by film tour, weaving the stories surrounding the films into larger narratives.

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67 episodes
E46-E50: No. 11, A Legend for Fountains, Glimpse of the Garden, Free Radicals, Bridges-Go-Round
BEST LOVED FILMS

37m
Mar 26
E41-E45: Mother’s Day, The Lead Shoes, Duck Amuck, The End, The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
BEST LOVED FILMS

33m
Mar 25
E36-E40: Meshes of the Afternoon, Ritual in Transfigured Time, The Potted Psalm, The Cage, Fireworks
BEST LOVED FILMS

47m
Mar 19
E31-E35: Menilmontant, L’Age D’Or, Borderline, Rose Hobart, Porky in Wackyland
BEST LOVED FILMS

46m
Mar 14
E26-E30: The Seashell and the Clergyman, The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra, The Fall of the House of Usher, Un Chien Andalou, The Blood of a Poet
BEST LOVED FILMS

54m
Mar 06
E21-E25: Sherlock Jr., Symphonie Diagonale, Ballet Mécanique, Entr’acte, Anemic Cinema
BEST LOVED FILMS

29m
Feb 27
E16-E20: Fievre, Lichtspiel: Opus 1, Rhythmus 21, Le Souriante Madame Beudet, Return to Ray
BEST LOVED FILMS

33m
Feb 20
E11-E15: The Cameraman’s Revenge, Gertie the Dinosaur, Thais, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Manhatta
BEST LOVED FILMS

35m
Feb 13
E6-E10: The Consequences of Feminism, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, Fantasmagoria, L’Inferno, A Fool and His Money
BEST LOVED FILMS

28m
Feb 05
E1-E5: Dickson Experimental Sound Film, Cendrillon, Le voyage dans la lune, Le royaume des fees, The Great Train Robbery
BEST LOVED FILMS

56m
Jan 29
D97-D100: Bisbee ’17, They Shall Not Grow Old, Collective, For Sama
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 17m
Jun 29, 2023
D93-D96: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, King in the Wilderness, Amazing Grace, Mr. Soul!
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 4m
Jun 26, 2023
D89-D92: 13th, I Am Not Your Negro, One More Time With Feeling, Faces Places
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 10m
Jun 24, 2023
D85-D88: Virunga, The Look of Silence, Sherpa, Tower (special guest: Lori Hurwitz)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 20m
Jun 20, 2023
D81-D84: First Cousin Once Removed, Out of the Clear Blue Sky, Best-Kept Secret, The Missing Picture (special guest: Mark Valor)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 3m
Jun 14, 2023
D77-D80: We Were Here, This is Not a Film, The Act of Killing, Stories We Tell (special guest: Laura Atkins)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 11m
Jun 05, 2023
D73-D76: No End in Sight, Man on Wire, Waltz with Bashir, Nostalgia for the Light
BEST LOVED FILMS

49m
Jun 01, 2023
D69-D72: Street Fight, Our Daily Bread, An Inconvenient Truth, When the Levees Broke (special guest: Tim Shary)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 57m
May 22, 2023
D65-D68: Los Angeles Plays Itself, The March of the Penguins, Grizzly Man, Murderball (special guest: Dania Denise)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 58m
May 16, 2023
D61-D64: The Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, Super Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11 (special guest: Jennifer Steinman Sternin)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 4m
May 09, 2023
D57-D60: American Movie, The Gleaners and I, Children Underground, Winged Migration (special guest: Kiranmayi Indraganti)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 43m
May 01, 2023
D53-D56: Crumb, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, 4 Little Girls (special guest: Andy Kamenetzky)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 50m
Apr 24, 2023
D49-D52: The Civil War, Close-Up, Brother’s Keeper, Black Is…Black Ain’t (special guest: Sam Hurwitt)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 50m
Apr 22, 2023
D45-D48: The Thin Blue Line, Tongues Untied, Roger & Me, Paris is Burning (special guest: Naomi Brandes)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 2m
Apr 10, 2023
D41-D44: Stop Making Sense, Shoah, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, Let’s Get Lost (special guest: Mike Hrycyk)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 0m
Apr 03, 2023
D37-D40: Koyannisqatsi, Burden of Dreams, Sans Soleil, Streetwise (special guest: Katherine Cleghorn)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 58m
Mar 28, 2023
D33-D36: Grey Gardens, Harlan County, U.S.A., The Last Waltz, The Decline of Western Civilization Part 1 (special guest: Edward O’Neill)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 2m
Mar 20, 2023
D29-D32: The Murder of Fred Hampton, F for Fake, Hearts and Minds, The Battle of Chile Part 1 (special guest: Steve Garvin)
BEST LOVED FILMS

1h 58m
Mar 14, 2023
D25-D28: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, Land of Silence and Darkness (special returning guest: Anton Howard)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 0m
Mar 06, 2023
D21-D24: High School, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Part One, Salesman, The Sorrow and the Pity (special guest: Anton Howard)
BEST LOVED FILMS

2h 11m
Feb 28, 2023