Ep. 278: Sean Baker on Anora and its influences, and his recent viewingWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. We’re back with an extra-special episode that’s chock full of pure movie love! Written and directed by Sean Baker, Anora starring Mikey Madison keeps winning over audiences as it’s expanded to theaters across the c…

Ep. 277: Shonni Enelow on Acting: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Mid-to-Late Rohmer, The BeastWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m happy to welcome back scholar Shonni Enelow for another thoughtful chat about acting and performance, and how they reflect or respond to changing times. Enelow, a professo…

Ep. 276: Mark Asch on Blitz, Hellraiser, Saturday Night, Northern Lights, plus CompensationWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the 62nd New York Film Festival wound down, I nabbed critic Mark Asch after the press screening of Blitz for a little chat. We shared some initial impressions of Steve McQueen’s Blitz, the fe…

Ep. 275: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson Talk About MoviesWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week sees the release of Rumours, the new movie from Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. It's about a remote gathering of world leaders (played by Cate Blanchett and Roy Dupuis among …

Ep. 274: Alissa Wilkinson on NYFF: Suburban Fury, My Undesirable Friends, Wang Bing, 7 Walks with Mark Brown, Nickel Boys ReduxWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. In the concluding week of the 62nd New York Film Festival, I sat down with Alissa Wilkinson of The New York Times to hear her thoughts on a few titles. Two we…

Ep. 273: Amy Taubin on NYFF: Nickel Boys, My Undesirable Friends, New Godard and Albert Serra, No Other Land, RumoursWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the New York Film Festival presents a kind of best-of-the-year selection for its 62nd edition, I sat down with the one and only Amy Taubin to discuss a few highlight…

Ep. 272: Christian Lorentzen on Pavements (and Pavement)Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week the movie Pavements (and the band Pavement) came to The New York Film Festival. So I sat down after a Lincoln Center screening with critic Christian Lorentzen of the London Review of Books among many publications, to ge…

Ep. 271: Eric Hynes on Conclave, Friendship, Tata, The Last Republican, Winter in Sokcho (Toronto)Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. So it turns out I had another Toronto International Film Festival episode up my sleeve, with Eric Hynes, Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image. We talk about the Ralph Fiennes ele…

Ep. 270: First-Person 1990s Documentary at MOMI with Jeff Reichert and Asha Phelps: Personal Belongings and BeyondWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The documentary work that bloomed in the 1990s, partly thanks to new technologies, has a raw immediacy that’s a pleasure to re-encounter on the big screen. Thanks to a new…

Ep. 269: Toronto 2024: Mark Asch on The End, Hard Truths, Eden, Measures for a FuneralWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The fall is always packed with movies entering the world for the first time, and the Toronto International Film Festival brings together a sprawling slate of such premieres—some opening later in the …

Ep. 268: Venice 2024: Jessica Kiang on April, Queer, Vermiglio, Happyend, 2073Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival had a few more important films up its sleeve in its final days, and I was very happy to sit down in Venice with Jessica Kiang of Variety for a chat. Titles discussed include: Ap…

Ep. 267: Venice 2024: Edo Choi on Pavements, Familiar Touch, Mistress Dispeller, Israel Palestine doc, plus Joker 2Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival is underway, and I’m podcasting from the Lido about the latest movies to screen. This time I chatted with Edo Choi of the Museum of the Movi…

Ep. 266: Venice 2024: Guy Lodge on Harvest, Babygirl Redux, Peacock, Diciannove (Nineteen)Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival is underway, and I’m podcasting from the Lido about the latest movies to screen. This time I chatted with critic Guy Lodge of Variety about a number of titles includ…

Ep. 265: Venice 2024: Glenn Kenny on The Room Next Door, I’m Still Here, Wolfs, Separated, Finally, The BrutalistWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival is underway, and I’m podcasting from on site about the latest movies to screen. This time I chatted with critic Glenn Kenny (Roger Ebert, The …

Ep. 264: Venice 2024: Jordan Cronk on The Brutalist, Cloud, Baby Invasion, The Day the Clown Cried, Three FriendsWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival has just begun, and I’m podcasting from the festival about the latest movies to screen. This time I chatted with critic and programmer Jordan …

Ep. 263: Venice 2024: Jonathan Romney on Maria, Babygirl, The Quay Bros., John and Yoko, Beetlejuice 2Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival has just begun, and I will be podcasting from the festival about the latest lineup. To make sense of the opening batch of movies, I sat down for a chat w…

Ep. 262: Locarno 2024 with Keva York: Invention, Sparrow in the Chimney, Mandico, VernierWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Before the fall schedule of festivals and new releases begins in earnest, the Locarno festival has its say with a few choice selections (last year including one of my favorites, Radu Jude’s Do Not…

Ep. 261: Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells on The Strange Mr. Victor, Serpent’s Path, Parenthood, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Nathan Silver’s latest movie Between the Temples comes to cinemas on August 23, with a cast lead by Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. So for this episode, Silver and his co-writer,…

Ep. 260: Trap, Twisters, This Closeness, Janet Planet, Last Summer, and more with Maxwell Paparella and Elissa SuhWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. After a little summer vacation, it’s time once again to chat about some recent releases with two guests making their premieres on the podcast: Maxwell Paparella, an editor…

Ep. 259: K.J. Relth-Miller on Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024: Sisters of Nishijin, Amadeus, Anatole Livtak retro, The Innerview, The Sealed SoilWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual festival of revivals and restorations, showcases a bounty of discoveries, classics, and rarities in Bologna, Italy,…

Ep. 258: Amy Taubin on Tribeca Picks, Agnieszka Holland, Bleak Week, Mireia Sallarès’s Little DeathsWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Why go through the summer without a return visit from the inimitable Amy Taubin? On this episode we discuss a few films cherry-picked from this year’s Tribeca Festival; Agnieszka Hollan…

Ep. 257: The Nitrate Picture Show 2024 with David SchwartzWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Nitrate Picture Show takes place every year in Rochester, New York, at the George Eastman Museum, projecting movies from nitrate prints. The resulting super-vivid images create a movie-going experience that can be, in the w…

Ep. 256: Amy Taubin on Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me, The Shrouds, Charles Atlas, Arthur Jafa, Man Ray, and MoreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The one and only Amy Taubin comes back to The Last Thing I Saw for a wide-ranging conversation about what she’s been watching. That includes at least a couple of Cannes titles—Le…

Ep. 255: Cannes 2024 Redux: Jessica Kiang on Black Dog, 2nd Features, The Other Way Around, Viet and NamWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year at Cannes there are a few more films I want to talk about, even as the time is running out at the festival. So for a very special postscript (and postgame), critic Jessic…

Ep. 254: Cannes 2024 Finale: Manohla Dargis on The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Anora, The Apprentice, Marcello Mio, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s become an annual tradition on the last day of Cannes to sit down with Manohla Dargis, the chief film critic for The New York Times, and take stock of the festiv…

Ep. 253: Cannes 2024: Justin Chang on All We Imagine as Light, Caught by the Tides, The ShroudsWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest selection of highlights recorded during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I was delighted to sit down with Justin Chang of The New Yorker, recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize f…

Ep. 252: Cannes 2024: Beatrice Loayza on Visiting Hours, Eat the Night, and September SaysWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I sat down with critic Beatrice Loayza to discuss some of the lesser-spoken-about titles from the festival. That…

Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel DestinoWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I welcome a dear old friend, Nick Davis, a professor of film at Northwestern University and writer/editor of his own outs…

Ep. 250: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Caught by the Tides, Apprendre, Cannes Classics (Brocka, Bellocchio, Insta-Wiseman)Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I bring back Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to discuss two essential highlights …

Ep. 249: Cannes 2024: Jonathan Romney on Misericordia, Rumours, Being Maria, The Second Act, ParthenopeWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I chatted with critic Jonathan Romney and caught up with a number of movies in this year’s edition: Misericordia (directed by …

Ep. 248: Cannes 2024: Mark Asch on Anora, Horizon, Julie Keeps Quiet, Armand, It Doesn’t MatterWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I sat down with Mark Asch, critic and pod vivant, to talk about several highlights, each from a different section or showcase at Canne…

Ep. 247: Cannes 2024: Jon Dieringer on The Apprentice, The Substance, Megalopolis SquaredWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I’m joined by Jon Dieringer, editor and mastermind of Screen Slate, to cope with a couple of doozies in this year’s lineup. First up is The …

Ep. 246: Cannes 2024: Bilge Ebiri on Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, Schrader’s Oh Canada, Furiosa, plus Bertolucci Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I was happy to chat with Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine for his inaugural Cannes appearance on the podcast. We …

Ep. 245: Cannes 2024: Jordan Cronk on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, The Damned, Eephus, Universal LanguageWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival marches on, and I sat down with critic and programmer Jordan Cronk to hear about some recent highlights from Directors’ Fortnight a…

Ep. 244: Cannes 2024 with Alissa Wilkinson: Furiosa, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Invasion, Ghost Trail, Ernest Cole Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, and it’s easy to miss films in the scrum of first few days. So I spoke with Alissa Wilkinson of T…

Ep. 243: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Megalopolis, plus Napoleon and The Girl With the NeedleWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, and no film was more highly anticipated than Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. To get the very latest, I connected with Eri…

Ep. 242: Cannes 2024: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers! and recent favoritesWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opens this week, and for my 2024 series of Cannes episodes, I begin by talking with director Arnaud Desplechin about his new documentary that’s premiering at Cannes,…

Ep. 241: Kelly Reichardt on Alain Delon, David Lean's Passionate Friends, Recreating Rear Window, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With a retrospective of Kelly Reichardt’s work starting at Metrograph, I had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with Reichardt in one of the Metrograph theaters to talk about.…

Ep. 240: Caroline Golum on Quebec-Core, Ghosts of Mars, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Borzage’s Man’s CastleWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Filmmaker and self-described “rep rat” Caroline Golum returns to the podcast after far too long to discuss highlights from recent viewing! These incl…

Ep. 239: Bertrand Bonello on The Beast, Experimenting with AI, Crafting Melodrama, Reading Henry James, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Bertrand Bonello’s latest film The Beast has been melting minds with its time-skipping saga of star-crossed lovers and strangers played by Léa Seydoux and George Mackay. Ins…

Ep. 238: Time director Garrett Bradley on instincts, Devotion, America, and Satyajit Ray’s DeviWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Garrett Bradley is the director of Time, the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary about Sibil Fox Richardson and her efforts to get her husband released from prison. Bradley has directed several…

Ep. 237: Screen Slate leader Jon Dieringer on Civil War, plus Roadhouse, Quiet on Set, The EclipseWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the country in the grips of Civil War fever, I join forces with Screen Slate editor-in-chief Jon Dieringer, who was fresh from seeing the much-anticipated movie at a local Regal Cinem…

Ep. 236: CPH:DOX 2024 with Mads K. Mikkelsen on Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, Kix, and much moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For this episode I journeyed to Copenhagen for the 2024 edition of CPH:DOX, and talked about my favorite documentaries from the selection with the festival’s Head of Program M…

Ep. 235: K.J. Relth-Miller on Berlin Retrospectives: Lubitsch, Helke Sander, Carlos Saura, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For a number of festivals now, I’ve been fortunate enough to delve into the retrospective selections with programmer K.J. Relth-Miller from the Academy Museum (who also teaches at CalArts…

Ep. 234: Radu Jude on Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the WorldWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I present a chat with Radu Jude, the director of what’s already the most acclaimed movie of the year: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. The wild, funny, multi-layered movie follows a young p…

Ep. 233: Christine Smallwood on Chantal Akerman and La CaptiveWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week a new book on Chantal Akerman by Christine Smallwood enters the world, a volume about Akerman’s wholly original Proust adaptation La Captive that’s the latest in the Fireflies Press series of Decadent Editions focu…

Ep. 232: Eric Hynes on First Look and True/False 2024: Flying Lessons, There Was, There Was Not, Knit’s Island, AchillesWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As I did last year, I joined forces with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, for a double fest discussion, covering True/False, the Missouri no…

Ep. 231: Berlin 2024 with Jordan Cronk: Who by Fire, Tu Me Abrasas, Abiding Nowhere, Chime, Direct Action, More DocsWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For the latest episode about the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, I’m pleased to reunite with Jordan Cronk, who helped kick off this year’s series. We round up some vital highl…

Ep. 230: Berlin 2024 with Keva York: Christine Angot’s Une Famille, Spaceman, Berlin Critics’ WeekWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. I continue my reporting from the 2024 Berlin Film Festival by welcoming my latest guest to the podcast, critic Keva York, who is writing for Reverse Shot and ABC Arts (the Australian Broad…

Ep. 229: Berlin 2024 with Jessica Kiang: Dahomey, Pepe, Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing, The Human Hibernation, The Devil’s BathWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. I continue my reporting from the Berlin Film Festival 2024 with a grand episode starring Jessica Kiang, who is writing about the Berlinale for Variety …