The Last Thing I Saw

Ep. 269: Toronto 2024: Mark Asch on The End, Hard Truths, Eden, Measures for a Funeral Welcome 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 fall, some looking for distributors. As I have for several years, I went to Toronto and chatted with fellow critic Mark Asch, who used to edit me years ago at The L Magazine. Titles discussed include: The End (Joshua Oppenheimer), with Michael Shannon, Tilda Swinton, George MacKay; Hard Truths (Mike Leigh), with Marianne Jean-Baptiste; Eden (Ron Howard) with Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney; and Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) with Deragh Campbell. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 268: Venice 2024: Jessica Kiang on April, Queer, Vermiglio, Happyend, 2073 Welcome 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: April (directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili), Queer (Luca Guadagnino), Vermiglio (Maura Delpero), Happyend (Neo Sora), and 2073 (Asif Kapadia). This episode was recorded before the awards, where the honors included the Grand Jury Prize for Vermiglio and the Special Jury Prize for April. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 267: Venice 2024: Edo Choi on Pavements, Familiar Touch, Mistress Dispeller, Israel Palestine doc, plus Joker 2 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 Edo Choi of the Museum of the Moving Image who is writing up a couple of films for Reverse Shot. Titles discussed include: Pavements (directed by Alex Ross Perry), Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland), Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo), Israel Palestine on Swedish TV (1958-1989) (Göran Hugo Olsson), and, before we had to run off, a smidgen from me on Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 including Harvest (directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari), Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici), Peacock (Bernhard Wenger), and one more time, Babygirl (Halina Reijn), starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 265: Venice 2024: Glenn Kenny on The Room Next Door, I’m Still Here, Wolfs, Separated, Finally, The Brutalist Welcome 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 New York Times) about a number of titles including The Room Next Door (directed by Pedro Almodóvar), I’m Still Here (Walter Salles), Separated (Errol Morris), Wolfs (Jon Watts), and Finally (Claude Lelouch), with notes on a couple of restorations. Glenn also weighs in on The Brutalist and One to One: John & Yoko. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 264: Venice 2024: Jordan Cronk on The Brutalist, Cloud, Baby Invasion, The Day the Clown Cried, Three Friends Welcome 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 Cronk. Among the titles we discussed are The Brutalist (directed by Brady Corbet), Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine), Three Friends (Emmanuel Mouret), and a documentary about Jerry Lewis’s unfinished film The Day the Clown Cried, From Darkness To Light (Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 263: Venice 2024: Jonathan Romney on Maria, Babygirl, The Quay Bros., John and Yoko, Beetlejuice 2 Welcome 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 with critic Jonathan Romney, who is covering the festival for Screen Daily and The Observer. Among the titles we discussed are Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (directed by Tim Burton), Maria (Pablo Larrain), Babygirl (Halina Reijn), One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards), and the long-in-the-making new film from The Brothers Quay, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 262: Locarno 2024 with Keva York: Invention, Sparrow in the Chimney, Mandico, Vernier Welcome 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 Expect Too Much from the End of the World). This year, I chatted about the Locarno selection with critic Keva York, who was attending the festival. We discussed a few stimulating movies including Invention (directed by Courtney Stephens), Dragon Dilatation (Bertrand Mandico), Cent mille milliards (Virgil Vernier), and The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zurcher). Please note that this episode was recorded earlier in August during the Locarno Festival. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 261: Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells on The Strange Mr. Victor, Serpent’s Path, Parenthood, and more Welcome 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, C. Mason Wells, join the podcast to talk about recent viewing (some of it in preparation for writing a new film!). Among the titles discussed are The Strange Mr. Victor (Jean Gremillon, 1938), Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1998), Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989), and other intriguing picks from their viewing. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 260: Trap, Twisters, This Closeness, Janet Planet, Last Summer, and more with Maxwell Paparella and Elissa Suh Welcome 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 at MUBI Notebook, and Elissa Suh, a critic who’s published in Screen Slate, Vogue, and Bon Appetit, and writes a substack called MOVIEPUDDING. We talk about the new M. Night Shyamalan movie, starring Josh Hartnett; Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung) and the matter of Glen Powell; This Closeness (Kit Zauhar); Annie Baker's Janet Planet; Family Portrait (Lucy Kerr); and Last Summer (Catherine Breillat). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass