Ep. 182: Cannes #10 with Justin Chang on The Old Oak, Strange Way of Life, Sandra Huller 2x, Close Your Eyes Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes series continues, with episodes that were recorded live in Cannes! For the latest discussion, I talk with critic Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times about a batch of new films: Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, and Erice’s Close Your Eyes. Plus, Chang talks about interviewing Sa...
May 30, 2023•35 min
Ep. 181: Cannes #9 with Jessica Kiang on 4 Daughters, La Chimera, Banel and Adama, Only the River Flows, Project Silence Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, recorded live in Cannes! For the latest discussion, I talk with critic Jessica Kiang of Variety about a batch of new films: Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel and Adama, Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows, and...
May 29, 2023•50 min
Ep. 180: Cannes #8 with Jonathan Romney on Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, Joanna Arnow, and Pedro Costa + Wang Bing Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, recorded live in Cannes! This episode I talk with critic Jonathan Romney about Victor Erice’s long-awaited new film Close Your Eyes and the curious controversy surrounding its presentation; Joanna Arnow’s debut fiction feature The Feeling That the Time for Doing Somethin...
May 28, 2023•23 min
Ep. 179: Cannes #7 with Mark Asch on Asteroid City, Gondry’s Book of Solutions, Club Zero Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I reunite with critic Mark Asch to talk about a few more high-profile Cannes premieres, including Wes Anderson’s star-studded Asteroid City, Michel Gondry’s unexpectedly personal The Book of Solutions, and Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero. Stay tuned for more episodes wit...
May 26, 2023•26 min
Ep. 178: Cannes #6 with Jordan Cronk on Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, an ACID pick Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with globe-trotting critic Jordan Cronk. We discuss Cannes premieres, including Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves, the Directors’ Fortnight debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, a glimmer from the late Jean-Luc Godard, and one of Cr...
May 26, 2023•32 min
Ep. 177: Cannes #6 with Beatrice Loayza on Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, The Delinquents, Killers of the Flower Moon Redux Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with critic Beatrice Loayza who writes for The New York Times, Film Comment, and other publications. We discuss some Cannes premieres, including Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, and Scor...
May 25, 2023•21 min
Ep. 176: Cannes #5 with Eric Hynes on Todd Haynes’s May December, Eureka, Pictures of Ghosts Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image. We discuss recent Cannes premieres, including Todd Haynes’s May December with Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton; Lisandro Alonso’s return to feature filmmaking, Eureka; an...
May 23, 2023•25 min
Ep. 175: Cannes #3 with Jon Dieringer on Zone of Interest, Wang Bing’s Youth, Occupied City Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with Jon Dieringer, editor and publisher of the one and only Screen Slate. We discuss recent Cannes titles of note, including Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest, Wang Bing’s Youth, Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, and maybe even a glimpse of Scorsese's latest,...
May 22, 2023•34 min
Ep. 174: Cannes #2 with Mark Asch on Jeanne du Barry, Kore-eda’s Monster, Sweet East, The Goldman Case Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with critic Mark Asch about recent Cannes highlights (and otherwise), including Maiwenn’s festival opener Jeanne du Barry, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Sean Price Williams’s The Sweet East, and Cedric Kahn’s The Goldman Case. Stay tuned for more e...
May 19, 2023•32 min
Ep. 173: Cannes #1 with Eric Hynes Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. And I’m beginning my reports from the latest edition of the Cannes film festival. For my first episode, I talk with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, about the 2023 slate. We palaver about the highlights, “big” and “small” titles alike, offer a few anticipatory picks. We talk about what we expect to be seeing, and the enormous value, too, of seeing the unexpected. Stay ...
May 17, 2023•21 min
Ep. 172: Amy Taubin on Dead Ringers, Warhol's Batman Dracula, High Flying Bird, Joie Lee, Elephant Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m pleased as punch to speak with the critic Amy Taubin about her ongoing “Carte Blanche” series at the Museum of Modern Art, plus some recent viewing. Titles include: Dead Ringers (TV), Warhol’s unfinished Batman Dracula, High Flying Bird (directed by Steven Soderbergh), Fuller’s Pickup on South Street, shorts by Joie Lee, ...
May 13, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Ep. 171: Beatrice Loayza on Erotic Thrillers + Dry Ground Burning + a NDNF pick Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with critic Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times, Cinema Scope) about erotic thrillers—the subject of a new series of films on the Criterion Channel. Loayza wrote an article thinking through the genre, and we discuss the titles available for streaming now from the 1980s and 90s: Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion, John Dahl’s The Last Seduct...
Apr 24, 2023•43 min
Ep. 170: K.J. Relth-Miller on the VardaVerse, Neptune Frost, Pat Rocco, Titanic 3D, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m delighted to welcome the wonderful K.J. Relth-Miller of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. We discuss selections from the Academy Museum program “Enter the VardaVerse: Women’s Liberation Through Film, 1971–1977” including Agnes Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t and Julie Dash’s rarely shown UCLA film Diary...
Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Ep. 169: Synecdoche, New York with Michael Joshua Rowin, plus Brakhage, Resnais, Duras Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. I’ve been hosting a screening series recently called New Essentials at the Roxy Cinema in New York. This weekend I’m presenting Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut feature, Synecdoche, New York (2008), the sprawling story of a playwright (Philip Seymour Hoffman) attempting to stage a truly world-sized drama while navigating his wrecked personal li...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Ep. 168: True False 2023 with Eric Hynes on Hummingbirds, Art Talent Show, Time Bomb Y2K, more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I report to you from the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri, and its international showcase of nonfiction cinema. On a sunny day I sat down with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, about a number of highlights, including Hummingbirds from Silvia Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, Time Bomb...
Mar 10, 2023•37 min
Ep. 167: Berlin 2023 Six with Jordan Cronk: Hong’s In Water, Forum (incl. James Benning), Mal Viver + Viver Mal, The Echo, Samsara Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We conclude (?) with the latest and greatest from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. To catch up, I chat with Jordan Cronk, critic, programmer, and co-founder of Acropolis Cinema in Los Angeles. We discuss Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, Forum highlights including James Benning’s Allensworth, Tatiana ...
Mar 02, 2023•55 min
Ep. 166: Berlin 2023 Five with Inney Prakash: Notre Corps, An Atypical Orbit incl. Eduardo Williams, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mangosteen Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the latest and greatest from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. For my latest episode, I chat with programmer Inney Prakash, founder/director of the festival Prismatic Ground. We consider discuss Claire Simon’s documentary Notre Corps; the Forum Expanded exhibition An Atypic...
Feb 26, 2023•27 min
Ep. 165: Berlin 2023 Four with Jessica Kiang: Petzold's Afire, Reality, The Shadowless Tower, The Survival of Kindness Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the latest and greatest from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. For my latest episode, I chat with critic Jessica Kiang who is writing for Variety and The New York Times. We consider this year’s festival and discuss Christian Petzold’s Afire, Tina Satter’s Reality starring Sydney Sweeney, ...
Feb 24, 2023•48 min
Ep. 164: Berlin 2023 Three with Jonathan Romney: Angela Schanelec’s Music, Limbo, On the Adamant, Superpower Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I bring you the latest and greatest from Berlinale 2023. For my latest episode, I chat with critic Jonathan Romney (Screen, The Observer). We consider what’s special about this year’s festival and discuss Angela Schanelec’s Music, Ivan Sen’s Limbo, Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant, and Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’...
Feb 23, 2023•29 min
Ep. 163: Berlin 2023 Two with Jordan Cronk: Philippe Garrel’s The Plough, Totem, Here, Disco Boy, Dominik Graf's Melting Ink Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I bring you the latest and greatest from the Berlinale. For my latest episode, I chat with festival stalwart Jordan Cronk, critic and Acropolis Cinema programmer. We discussed films from across the sections of the 2023 edition: Philippe Garrel’s The Plough, Lila Aviles’s Totem, Bas Devos’s Here, Giac...
Feb 21, 2023•34 min
Ep. 162: Berlin 2023 One with Giovanni Marchini Camia: The Adults, Manodrome, Margaret Tait, Orlando Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I bring you the latest and greatest for the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, aka the Berlinale. For my first episode, I connected with Berlin-based critic, programmer, and Fireflies Press co-publisher Giovanni Marchini Camia. We discussed films from across the sections of the festival: Dustin Guy Defa’s The Adults, ...
Feb 19, 2023•28 min
Ep. 161: Sundance 2023 Six with Eric Hynes: Drift, Kokomo City, 20 Days in Mariupol, Mami Wata Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival episodes come to their thrilling conclusion (I think) with a final selection of highlights, brought straight to your ears. I talk with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, about Kokomo City, Drift, 20 Days in Mariupol, The Stroll, Iron Butterflies, Mami Wata, and last but not least, Talk...
Feb 05, 2023•39 min
Ep. 160: Sundance 2023 Five with Jessica Kiang: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt + The Disappearance of Shere Hite Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival left me with a number of worthy movies that I couldn’t shake from my mind anytime soon. So I’m back with critic Jessica Kiang (Variety) for the second part of our discussion. This time we go into a couple of films that people will definitely continue to talk about: a debut feature with a strong an...
Feb 02, 2023•37 min
Ep. 159: Sundance 2023 Four with Jessica Kiang: Past Lives, Passages, Notes on Hybrid Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival has officially wound down but I still have good movies to share with you! This time I joined forces with critic Jessica Kiang, who was reviewing films for Variety at the festival. Our discussion spans two episodes. Part One begins with notes on the hybrid nature of this edition, then moves on to Celine Song’s wonderful de...
Jan 31, 2023•36 min
Ep. 158: Sundance 2023 Three with Eric Hynes Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is back in action, returning to in-person screenings and events after two virtual years. I caught up again with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, about some of Films of Interest at the festival, including The Tuba Thieves, Rotting in the Sun, Cat Person, and Fremont. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rap...
Jan 27, 2023•39 min
Ep. 157: Sundance 2023 Two with Amy Taubin Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is back in action, returning to in-person screenings and events after two virtual years. I sat down with Last Thing I Saw regular and veteran of Sundance, critic Amy Taubin, about some of the highlights (and otherwise) at the festival, including Past Lives, Polite Society, and a Nam June Paik documentary. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up...
Jan 26, 2023•47 min
Ep. 156: Sundance 2023 One with Eric Hynes Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is back in action, returning to in-person screenings and events after two virtual years. To discuss the 2023 edition and some movie highlights so far, I spoke with longtime attendee Eric Hynes, curator of film at MOMI. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The M...
Jan 23, 2023•46 min
Ep. 155: Snubbed! with Michael Koresky, Eric Hynes, and Edo Choi Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This month the Museum of the Moving Image starts the series “Snubbed: Great Movies, No Nominations.” The rules are simple: very fine films that were ignored, overlooked, or snubbed (if you will) by the Academy. For this episode I’m joined by the delightful series co-programmers: Eric Hynes, curator of film at MOMI; Michael Koresky, co-editor of Reverse Shot; and Edo Ch...
Jan 16, 2023•59 min
Ep. 154: Avatar 2, Michael Mann, Nope, Casa Susanna, Rosa von Praunheim, World Cup Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The thrilling conclusion of 2022 has arrived, starring critic Mark Asch in a discussion about all of the pressing matters of the moment in the film world: Avatar 2: The Way of Water, digital cinema and Michael Mann, Nope, Casa Susanna, Rosa von Praunheim, and the 2022 World Cup. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.su...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Ep. 153: Bruce Bennett on Blue Collar, Canyon Passage, Ragtime, Ken Burns Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This episode I continue my conversation with writer Bruce Bennett, who’s back on the show with a new garden of cinematic delights. In the first half, we talked about Chabrol and Skolimowski and British rarities, and now in the second half, Bruce takes us deep into the heart of America on film through Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar, Jacques Tourneur’s Canyon Passa...
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min
