Cannes #8 with Jonathan Romney: Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, Burning Days, The Super-8 Years, Blue Caftan Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with critic Jonathan Romney, who has been writing for Screen Daily throughout the 2022 edition. We discuss Park Chan-wook’s galvanizing thriller Decision to Leave, writer Annie Ernaux’s extraordinary Super-8 Years (co-directed with David Ernaux-Briot), Emin Alper’s Bur...
May 28, 2022•23 min
Cannes #7 with Jordan Cronk: Stars at Noon, Pacifiction, Fogo-Fatuo, Diary of a Fleeting Affair Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with critic Jordan Cronk, one of the show’s festival stalwarts, who’ll be writing a report on Cannes 2022 for Artforum. We discuss the second Claire Denis film of the year, Stars at Noon, plus Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’s Fogo-Fatuo, and Emmanuel Moret’s Diary of ...
May 27, 2022•29 min
Cannes #6 with Eric Hynes: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, R.M.N., Return to Seoul, Godland, Joyland Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, who joins to discuss body doc De Humani Corporis Fabrica (from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor), Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N., and Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul, plus Godland and Joyland. Please support the production...
May 26, 2022•33 min
Cannes #5 with Eric Hynes: War Pony, Rodeo, Brother and Sister Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, who joins to discuss Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister, starring Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud, and two debut features, Rodeo (from Lola Quivoron) and War Pony (from Riley Keough and Gina Gammell). Please support the production of this podcast ...
May 25, 2022•22 min
Ep. 118: Cannes #4 with Amy Taubin: Crimes of the Future and Forever Young (Les Amandiers) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue in this very special episode with critic Amy Taubin, who joins to discuss David Cronenberg’s hotly anticipated Crimes of the Future, about a world of organ performance art; and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s outstanding chronicle of young actors, Forever Young (also known as Les Amandiers). Be su...
May 24, 2022•38 min
Ep. 117: Cannes #3 with Eric Hynes: Eo, Armageddon Time, and Ukraine documentary Mariupolis 2 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image. We talk on an especially lively terrace at Cannes about Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally wild donkey epic Eo, James Gray’s semiautobiographical Armageddon Time, and the posthumously assembled Ukraine documentary Mariupolis 2...
May 23, 2022•20 min
Ep. 116: Cannes #2 with Mark Asch: Scarlet, Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Top Gun Maverick, Harka Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with a deluxe episode with critic Mark Asch, a delightful correspondent of the show at last summer’s edition of the festival. We talk about recent viewing including Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet, Tchaikovsky’s Wife from Kirill Serebrennikov, Lotfy Nathan’s Harka, and oddly quite a bit of Top Gun M...
May 21, 2022•52 min
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. I’m back at the Cannes Film Festival after a pandemic absence and couldn’t be more delighted to share the latest and greatest in films with you. For the kick-off episode, I’m joined by Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image and writing about Cannes for Reverse Shot. We review the lineup of the 2022 edition, highlighting some titles and filmmakers, and also share a quick look at the opening film, Coupez!, from ...
May 19, 2022•27 min
Ep. 114: The Aesthetics of Cope, The Cathedral, Deepfake, Slade in Flame with Chloe Lizotte Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The show is back from spring break with a special episode starring writer Chloe Lizotte, a contributing editor at Le Cinema Club. She joins us talking about her work for her wide-ranging Reverse Shot column Event Horizon, including her essay about strange media phenomena during the pandemic, called “The Aesthetics of Cope,” and her thoughts o...
May 04, 2022•44 min
Ep. 113: Jacques Audiard on Paris, 13th District Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Paris, 13th District is the latest movie from Jacques Audiard, a writer-director whose work has spanned many genres, from The Beat That My Heart Skipped to Rust and Bone to The Sisters Brothers. Paris 13th District is Audiard’s unabashed look at a younger generation in love, and it starts by focusing on a woman, Emilie (Lucie Zhang) and her roommate, briefly turned lover, Camille (Mak...
Apr 15, 2022•23 min
Ep. 112: S.S. Rajamouli's RRR, Laida Lertxundi's Inner Outer Space, Leo McCarey's Part Time Wife, Kinuyo Tanaka's Love Letter with R. Emmet Sweeney Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s time for a good old-fashioned romp through recent viewing, with guest R. Emmet Sweeney of Kino Lorber. He shares his experience with S. S. Rajamouli’s new adventure, RRR, as well as the latest work from Laida Lertxundi, a (partial?) Leo McCarey feature that’s of a piece with The Awf...
Apr 07, 2022•41 min
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. One of the greatest action movies of all time is also one of the most beautiful: Mad Max: Fury Road. It was on the top ten lists of 2015 and more than a few best of the decade lists. But making the movie was no walk in the park, and a new oral history by Kyle Buchanan is full of well-researched and entertaining detail about the movie’s sometimes insane production process, which involved stops and starts dating back to the 1990s. Buc...
Mar 27, 2022•58 min
Episode 110: Nadav Lapid on Ahed’s Knee Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The filmmaker Nadav Lapid has made one tense, kinetic, indelibly original drama after another: Policeman, The Kindergarten Teacher, Synonyms, and now Ahed’s Knee. Ahed’s Knee premiered at the Cannes film festival last year where it shared the Jury Prize with Memoria, and it opened in New York on March 18. The film follows an Israeli director who is presenting one of his movies in a small town,...
Mar 21, 2022•28 min
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This year the True/False Film Fest welcomed guests back for another edition, fully in-person with guests from all over the globe. I try to go every year to take advantage of its delicious nonfiction smorgasbord, and joining me to talk about the selection is Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image and a longtime attendee of the festival. We talked about the festival and films such as After Sherman, Mr. Landsberg...
Mar 12, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Village Voice loomed large for me as a critic and an editor. The Voice I grew up with may be long gone, but it’s been a joy to continue reading my favorite critics who wrote there. For this episode, I’m honored to bring together three all-star alumnae of the Village Voice to talk about movies. Manohla Dargis, the co-chief film critic of The New York Times, started writing about avant-garde cinema at the Voice early in her career...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Episode 107: Berlin #6 with Edo Choi (Dark Glasses, Rewind & Play, Sonne, A Little Love Package, Terra que marca) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. For what might be the last episode on this year’s edition, I talked with Edo Choi, assistant curator at Museum of the Moving Image. We discuss Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses, Alain Gomis’s Rewind & Play, Kurdwi...
Feb 23, 2022•31 min
Episode 106: Berlin #5 with Giovanni Marchini Camia (Unrest, Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Mutzenbacher, The Death of My Mother, Alcarras) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk with Giovanni Marchini Camia, a critic (Sight & Sound and more), editor (Fireflies Press), and member of the Locarno selection committee. We discuss Unrest, Queens of the Q...
Feb 22, 2022•41 min
Episode 105: Berlin #4 with Inney Prakash (Dry Ground Burning, Instant Life, Jet Lag, Super Natural, The Kegelstatt Trio) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk Fun at the Forum (and Forum Expanded) with programmer Inney Prakash of Maysles Cinema and Prismatic Ground. We discuss Dry Ground Burning (from Adirley Queiros and Joana Pimenta), Instant Lif...
Feb 18, 2022•26 min
Episode 104: Berlin #3 with Jordan Cronk (The Novelist’s Film, Afterwater, Coma, United States of America, That Kind of Summer, more) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. I joined forces with Jordan Cronk, critic (MUBI Notebook and elsewhere) and programmer (Acropolis). We discussed new films by Hong Sangsoo, Bertrand Bonello, James Benning, Denis Côté, and Darezha...
Feb 17, 2022•42 min
Episode 103: Berlin 2022 #2 with Guy Lodge (Flux Gourmet, Robe of Gems, Small Slow but Steady, Brother in Every Inch, Fire, AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet of Love) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Berlin festival series continues, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk with Guy Lodge, a regular critic for Variety. We discuss Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, Natalia Lopez Gallardo’s Robe of Gems, Sho Miyake’s Small, Slow but Stea...
Feb 16, 2022•28 min
Episode 102: Berlin 2022 #1 with Jonathan Romney (Fire, Rimini, Incredible But True, Passengers of the Night, A Piece of Sky, See You Friday, Robinson) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Berlin International Film Festival is underway and I kicked off this edition’s podcasts with series regular Jonathan Romney, a critic writing for Screen Daily and The Observer among other publications. We talked about notable premieres such as Claire Denis’s Fire, Ulrich Seidl’s ...
Feb 16, 2022•40 min
Episode 101: Sundance 2022 #7 with Jessica Green (Mija, Alice, God’s Country, The Exiles, Free Chol Soo Lee, Framing Agnes) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. So it turns out I have one more episode of Sundance films to share. I was joined by Jessica Green, artistic director of the Houston Cinema Arts Society, who brought several films that haven’t been discussed yet on the podcast. Jessica came on toward the end of the festival to talk about Mija, The Exiles, God’s ...
Feb 10, 2022•43 min
Episode 100: Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Lost Daughter Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It's the 100th episode! As a working critic and journalist, I always hope these podcasts add something new to the discussion. And for that I have to thank my guests, all the talented critics and filmmakers who have joined me, and of course my listeners for listening. Finally, a special thank-you to my substack subscribers. Your support makes the podcast possible. This episode, I ta...
Feb 08, 2022•28 min
Episode 99: Sundance 2022 #6 with Jon Dieringer (Leonor Will Never Die, Short Films, TikTok, Boom, Cha Cha Real Smooth) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. As we enter the final days (of the festival), I was joined by Jon Dieringer, editor and publisher of the estimable Screen Slate. We talk about Martika Escobar’s Leonor Will Never Die, Shalini Kantayya’s documentary ...
Jan 29, 2022•47 min
Episode 98: Sundance 2022 #5 with Jourdain Searles (Emily the Criminal, Sharp Stick, Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, When You Finish Saving the World) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome a terrific critic I’ve been wanting to feature on the podcast for a long time: Jourdain Searles, who writes for publications including The...
Jan 28, 2022•46 min
Episode 97: Sundance 2022 #4 with Beatrice Loayza (Dos Estaciones, Speak No Evil, Brainwashed, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I chat with Beatrice Loayza, a New York Times contributor and an editor at the Criterion Collection, about her recent Sundance selections, her favorites and her not-so-favorites. We talk about J...
Jan 27, 2022•38 min
Episode 96: Sundance 2022 #3 with Amy Taubin (Nanny, Master, Call Jane, Resurrection, You Won’t Be Alone) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I’m delighted to talk with the one and only Amy Taubin about yet another year of Sundance selections. We talk about a few highlights of her viewing so far, including Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny, Mariama Diallo’s Master, Phyllis ...
Jan 26, 2022•59 min
Episode 95: Sundance 2022 #2 with Eric Hynes (Dual, We Met in Virtual Reality, A House Made of Splinters, Jihad Rehab) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition. We’re nearing the end of a packed weekend of premieres and I joined forces once again with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to begin sorting through the movies. We share initial reactions to a few inc...
Jan 23, 2022•43 min
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition that’s no less important for beginning the 2022 movie calendar. I joined forces with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to talk about the independent-minded festival in general and to highlight a couple of movies that jumped out to us in the opening day (or two). You can support this podcast and read show notes with link...
Jan 21, 2022•29 min
Episode 93: Days of Horror with Mike Civins Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every October my good friend Mike Civins does a horror movie marathon. He watches 31 titles over 31 days, like clockwork. I have always been curious about his project, which happily ranges far and wide and includes movies that aren’t often thought of as a horror. This year he watched the Alien movies, including Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection, but he also saw Wolf’s Hole, a movie ...
Jan 11, 2022•53 min
