The Last Thing I Saw

Ep. 249: Cannes 2024: Jonathan Romney on Misericordia, Rumours, Being Maria, The Second Act, Parthenope Welcome 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 Alain Guiraudie), The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), Being Maria (Jessica Palud), Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino), and Rumours (Guy Maddin and Evan & Galen Johnson), plus his verdict on the inescapable Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 248: Cannes 2024: Mark Asch on Anora, Horizon, Julie Keeps Quiet, Armand, It Doesn’t Matter Welcome 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 Cannes. We discuss the highly acclaimed Anora (directed by Sean Baker, in Competition), Armand (Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, from Un Certain Regard), Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo van Dijl, in Critics’ Week), Horizon (Kevin Costner, out of Competition), and It Doesn’t Matter (Josh Mond, in ACID). Mark also describes how he starts his day in this French coastal town. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 247: Cannes 2024: Jon Dieringer on The Apprentice, The Substance, Megalopolis Squared Welcome 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 Apprentice (directed by Ali Abbasi), also known as The Trump Movie, followed by the full-on The Substance (Coralie Fargeat). Both movies also allow an opportunity to muse upon the hot-house festival atmosphere, and Dieringer also share a few thoughts on Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola), which he has already seen twice. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 discuss the much-anticipated new films from Yorgos Lanthimos (Kinds of Kindness), Paul Schrader (Oh Canada), and for a well-deserved encore, George Miller (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). Our conversation also explores a few facets of the phenomenon that is Cannes, and the enduring inspiration of Bernardo Bertolucci. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 245: Cannes 2024: Jordan Cronk on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, The Damned, Eephus, Universal Language Welcome 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 and Un Certain Regard: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (directed by Tyler Taormina), The Damned (Roberto Minervini), Eephus (Carson Lund), and Universal Language (Matthew Rankin). I also flag Everybody Loves Touda, directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-written by Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan). Stay tuned for more to come! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 The New York Times about, yes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, but also Ghost Trail (directed by Jonathan Millet) in Critics’ Week, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) in Un Certain Regard, Sergei Loznitsa’s wartime Ukraine documentary The Invasion, and Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Raoul Peck’s look at the photographer and South African exile. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 243: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Megalopolis, plus Napoleon and The Girl With the Needle Welcome 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 Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, fresh from a press screening of the movie, which has loomed over Cannes’ opening days this year. He shared his initial thoughts about Megalopolis, which stars Adam Driver as a would-be visionary city planner, and about another competition title, The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn), and a Cannes Classics selection, Abel Gance’s Napoleon. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 242: Cannes 2024: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers! and recent favorites Welcome 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, Filmlovers! (aka Spectateurs!). Desplechin’s Kings and Queen is a 21st-century classic, and a formative viewing experience for me, so it was a pleasure chatting about how movies first seized his imagination, about interviewing movie lovers of all stripes, the Garry Marshall movie he insisted on presenting at the cinematheque just before Cannes, reflecting on tragedy through movies, and the last movie he saw (and purchased). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 241: Kelly Reichardt on Alain Delon, David Lean's Passionate Friends, Recreating Rear Window, and more Welcome 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... the last things she saw! The director of (most recently) Showing Up discussed a run of Alain Delon movies she saw in the theater—starting with Purple Noon—and also films she uses in her teaching at Bard College, in coursework that involves students re-creating the filmmaking of certain scenes. “American Landscapes: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt” begins May 11 at Metrograph, starting with her first feature, River of Grass, on through Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves, Certain Women, First Cow, and her most recent, Showing Up, plus two shorts streaming on Metrograph at Home. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 240: Caroline Golum on Quebec-Core, Ghosts of Mars, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Borzage’s Man’s Castle Welcome 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 include: Au clair de la lune (1983, Andre Forcier) from the “Quebec-Core” series at Anthology Film Archives; couples viewing Ghosts of Mars (2001, The Great John Carpenter); new release The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow); and My Morning with Magic Mike (John Wilson, visiting Mike Kuchar), which was available for the blink of a week on Le Cinéma Club. I also shout-out Museum of the Moving Image’s discovery-laden Hiroshi Shimizu series (e.g. Children of the Beehive, 1948) and, also from Quebec-Core, Mireille Dansereau’s Dream Life (1972). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass