The Last Thing I Saw

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, Killers of the Flower Moon. Stay tuned for more episodes with a glittering array of brilliant critics. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 episodes with a glittering array of brilliant critics. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 tuned for more episodes with a panoply of brilliant critics. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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, and Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. I also ask Amy about interviewing Barbara Loden for the Soho News, and we chat about my latest pick for New Essentials at the Roxy Cinema in New York: Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Seduction, Nicholas Kazan’s Dream Lover, and Sollace Mitchell’s New York–set Call Me, among others. Loayza also talks about a recent stand-out among new releases, Dry Ground Burning, from directors Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós, and I offer a pick from the recent edition of New Directors / New Films. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 of an African Nun. Relth-Miller also talks about the contemporary films she teaches at CalArts, and a couple of filmmakers who captured Los Angeles: Melvin Van Peebles and Pat Rocco. Plus: Titanic 3D! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 life. For the latest episode, I discuss Kaufman’s rich and strange and funny movie with critic Michael Joshua Rowin, who wrote about it for Reverse Shot. We also compare notes on the last things each of us has seen, including films by more adventurers in subjectivity: Stan Brakhage, Alain Resnais, and Marguerite Duras. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Y2K from Brian Becker and Marley McDonald, and more. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Huezo’s The Echo, Joao Canijo’s two-part hotel epic Mal Viver and Viver Mal, and Lois Patiño’s Samsara. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Atypical Orbit which includes the Eduardo Williams work A Very Long GIF; a new short by Kevin Jerome Everson, If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move; and Tulapop Saenjaroen’s Mangosteen. Stay tuned for more from the Berlinale! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass