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Critic Nicolas Rapold talks with guests about the movies they've been watching. From home viewing to the latest from festivals. Named one of the 10 Best Film Podcasts by Sight

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Ep. 215: Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East and Recent Viewing from 2023-11-30T06:00:36

Ep. 215: Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East and Recent Viewing Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton have been stalwart guests on the podcas...

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Ep. 214: Eric Hynes on Nonfiction Picks at IDFA + Bonus Docs with Edo Choi from 2023-11-25T06:00:16

Ep. 214: Eric Hynes on award-winner"1489"and more documentary highlights at IDFA + bonus selections with Edo Choi Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. A special double e...

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Ep. 213: Julian Ross on New Nonfiction at IDFA from 2023-11-19T15:02:51

Ep. 213: Julian Ross on New Nonfiction at IDFA Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year, a stimulating new crop of nonfiction cinema premieres at the Internationa...

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Ep. 212: Restorations with James Vaughan: Abel Gance, Pressure, Man Ray, Abraham’s Valley from 2023-11-11T11:28:24

Ep. 212: Restorations with James Vaughan: Abel Gance, Pressure, Man Ray, Abraham’s Valley Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year the New York Film Festival roll...

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Ep. 211: Edo Choi on Killers of the Flower Moon, Janet Planet, All of Us Strangers, Kevin Everson from 2023-11-02T18:16:16

Ep. 211: Edo Choi on Killers of the Flower Moon, Janet Planet, All of Us Strangers, Kevin Jerome Everson Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Martin Scorsese’s Killers o...

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Ep. 210: Bruce Bennett on 8 Hours of Terror, Ambush at Tomahawk Gap, Yield to the Night, Nuke Films from 2023-10-26T15:10:12

Ep. 210: Bruce Bennett on Eight Hours of Terror, Ambush at Tomahawk Gap, Yield to the Night, Nuke Films, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s that most won...

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Ep. 209: Clyde Folley on 90s Horror on Criterion: Body Parts, The Rapture, Exorcist 3, and more from 2023-10-18T23:48

Ep. 209: Clyde Folley on 90s Horror on Criterion Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Season’s greetings! On this episode I talk about 90s horror with Clyde Folley, progr...

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Ep. 208: Amy Taubin on the New York Film Festival 2023 from 2023-10-14T21:03:04

Ep. 208: Amy Taubin on the New York Film Festival 2023 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This year, the 61st New York Film Festival curated a notably strong selection...

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Ep. 207: Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert on Reverse Shot at 20 from 2023-10-06T18:21:26

Ep. 207: Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert on Reverse Shot at 20 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The wonderful film publication Reverse Shot celebrates its 20th ann...

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Ep. 206: Eric Hynes on Toronto 2023: The Pigeon Tunnel, The Holdovers, The Peasants, Gonzo Girl from 2023-09-29T16:00:02

Ep. 206: Eric Hynes on Toronto 2023: The Pigeon Tunnel, The Holdovers, The Peasants, American Fiction, Gonzo Girl Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the fall season...

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Ep. 205: Toronto 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: The Teachers’ Lounge, Memory, Arthur&Diana, Wavelength from 2023-09-24T22:23:07

Ep. 205: Toronto 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: The Teachers’ Lounge, Arthur&Diana, Wavelengths shorts, Memory Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the fall season kicks ...

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Ep. 204: Toronto 2023 with Mark Asch: The Boy and the Heron, His Three Daughters, Silver Dollar Road from 2023-09-21T05:00:23

Ep. 204: Toronto 2023 with Mark Asch: The Boy and the Heron, His Three Daughters, Lee, Silver Dollar Road Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This month I went to the T...

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Ep. 203: Venice 2023 with Glenn Kenny: The Killer, Caine Mutiny, Orson, Making Of, Restorations from 2023-09-09T05:00:08

Ep. 203: Venice 2023 with Glenn Kenny: The Killer, Caine Mutiny, Orson Welles TV, Making Of, Restorations Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. For the last day of the 80...

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Ep. 202: Venice 2023 with Jessica Kiang: Priscilla, Green Border, Hit Man, Coup de Chance from 2023-09-07T22:20:19

Ep. 202: Venice 2023 with Jessica Kiang: Priscilla, Green Border, Hit Man, Coup de Chance Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m reporting from the 80th Veni...

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Ep. 201: Venice '23 with Jordan Cronk: Aggro Dr1ft, The Beast, Evil Does Not Exist, Gasoline Rainbow from 2023-09-05T22:01:05

Ep. 201: Venice 2023 with Jordan Cronk: Aggro Dr1ft, The Beast, Evil Does Not Exist, Gasoline Rainbow Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m reporting from t...

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Ep. 200: Venice 2023 with Jonathan Romney: Maestro, Henry Sugar, The Palace, El Conde, Promised Land from 2023-09-04T15:40:55

Ep. 200: Venice 2023 with Jonathan Romney: Maestro, Henry Sugar, The Palace, El Conde, Promised Land Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m reporting from th...

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Ep. 199: Venice 2023 with Guy Lodge: Poor Things, New Wiseman, City of Wind, Hungary from 2023-09-02T22:42:43

Ep. 199: Venice 2023 with Guy Lodge: Poor Things, New Wiseman, City of Wind, Explanation for Everything Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 80th Venice Film Festiva...

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Ep. 198: Venice 2023 with Glenn Kenny: Ferrari, Dogman, Hollywoodgate from 2023-08-31T23:50:40

Ep. 198: Venice 2023 with Glenn Kenny: Ferrari, Dogman, Hollywoodgate Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 80th Venice Film Festival has begun, and I’ll be reporting...

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Ep. 197: Manohla Dargis on Summertime Viewing (and possibly Barbie) from 2023-08-24T17:34:03

Ep. 197: Manohla Dargis on Summertime Viewing (and possibly Barbie) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I catch up with a very special guest, Manohla Dargis, ...

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Ep. 196: Locarno 2023 with K.J. Relth-Miller on Mexican Retrospective: Spectacle Every Day from 2023-08-18T05:00:49

Ep. 196: Locarno 2023 with K.J. Relth-Miller on Mexican Retro: Spectacle Every Day Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We have one final report from the Locarno film fe...

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Ep. 195: Locarno 2023 with Giovanni Marchini Camia: The Human Surge 3, Critical Zone, A Good Place from 2023-08-14T15:27:05

Ep. 195: Locarno 2023 with Giovanni Marchini Camia on The Human Surge 3, Critical Zone, Good Place Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’ve been reporting on ...

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Ep. 194: Locarno 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: Mademoiselle Kenopsia, Yannick, Camping du Lac from 2023-08-11T00:56:29

Ep. 194: Locarno 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: Mademoiselle Kenopsia, Yannick, Camping du Lac, The Vanishing Soldier Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m repo...

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Ep. 193: Locarno 2023 with Jessica Kiang: the new Radu Jude film and more from 2023-08-08T23:20:44

Ep. 193: Locarno 2023 with Jessica Kiang: Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Sweet Dreams, Manga D'Terra Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. ...

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Ep. 192: John Wilson on How To with John Wilson from 2023-08-03T06:59:55

Ep. 192: John Wilson on How To with John Wilson Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with John Wilson, the mastermind of How To with John Wilson, the su...

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Ep. 191: Amy Taubin on Oppenheimer, Barbie, Command-Z, Richard Kelly from 2023-07-23T22:44:09

Ep. 191: Amy Taubin on Oppenheimer, Barbie, Command-Z, Richard Kelly Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with the one and only Amy Taubin about the dou...

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Ep. 190: Mstyslav Chernov on Ukraine documentary 20 Days in Mariupol from 2023-07-15T11:54:55

Ep. 190: Mstyslav Chernov on Ukraine documentary 20 Days in Mariupol Welcome to the Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m speaking with the director of the Ukraine documen...

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Ep. 189: Amy Taubin on the Tribeca Festival 2023 and Beyond from 2023-07-01T15:12:58

Ep. 189: Amy Taubin on the Tribeca Festival 2023 and Beyond Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with the one and only Amy Taubin about the 2023 edition...

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Ep. 188: Peter Labuza on Sokurov, Klimov, Shepitko, Hellman’s Iguana, strike from 2023-06-23T06:00:36

Ep. 188: Peter Labuza on Sokurov, Klimov, Shepitko, Hellman’s Iguana, the strike Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week brings some recent highlights from Los An...

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Ep. 187: Michael Shannon on Directing (Eric LaRue) from 2023-06-16T23:30:06

Ep. 187: Michael Shannon Directs: Eric LaRue, a premiere at the Tribeca Festival Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I spoke with Michael Shannon who’s become...

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Ep. 186: Cannes 2023 Finale with Manohla Dargis from 2023-06-03T14:30:04

Ep. 186: Cannes #14 with Manohla Dargis of The New York Times Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes Film Festival series joyously concludes with our tradi...

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Ep. 185: Cannes #13 with Guy Lodge on How to Have Sex, In Our Day, Anselm, Mambar Pierrette, Sleep from 2023-06-02T22:07:48

Ep. 185: Cannes #13 with Guy Lodge on How to Have Sex, In Our Day, Anselm, Mambar Pierrette, Sleep Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes series continues,...

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Ep. 184: Cannes #12 with Eric Hynes on In the Rearview, Riddle of Fire, The Breaking Ice from 2023-05-31T18:00:14

Ep. 184: Cannes #12 with Eric Hynes on In the Rearview, Riddle of Fire, The Breaking Ice, La Chimera, It’s Raining in the House Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The ...

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Ep. 183: Cannes #11 with KJ Relth-Miller on Cannes Classics: L’Amour Fou, Skeleton of Mrs. Morales from 2023-05-30T18:00:08

Ep. 183: Cannes #11 with KJ Relth-Miller on Cannes Classics including L’Amour Fou and Skeleton of Mrs. Morales Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes serie...

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Ep. 182: Cannes #10 with Justin Chang on Ken Loach's Old Oak, Almodovar short, Sandra Hüller x 2 from 2023-05-30T05:00:28

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 ...

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Ep. 181: Cannes #9 with Jessica Kiang on 4 Daughters, La Chimera, Banel&Adama, Only River Flows from 2023-05-29T06:00:28

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 Ca...

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Ep. 180: Cannes #8 with Jonathan Romney on Victor Erice, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing, Joanna Arnow from 2023-05-28T07:19:26

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...

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Ep. 179: Cannes #7 with Mark Asch on Asteroid City, Gondry’s Book of Solutions, Club Zero from 2023-05-26T23:00:18

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, NicolasRapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series contin...

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Ep. 178: Cannes #6 with Jordan Cronk on Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves, Inside Yellow Cocoon Shell, ACID from 2023-05-26T00:14:17

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 fil...

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Ep. 177: Cannes #5 with Beatrice Loayza on Anatomy of a Fall, Delinquents, Killers of the Flower... from 2023-05-25T00:07:40

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 ...

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Ep. 176: Cannes #4 with Eric Hynes on Todd Haynes’s May December, Eureka, Pictures of Ghosts from 2023-05-23T13:27:15

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 co...

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Ep. 175: Cannes #3 with Jon Dieringer on Zone of Interest, Wang Bing’s Youth, Occupied City, Killers from 2023-05-22T01:05:11

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 con...

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Ep. 174: Cannes #2 with Mark Asch on Jeanne du Barry, Kore-eda’s Monster, Sweet East, Goldman Case from 2023-05-19T06:57:01

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...

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Ep. 173: Cannes #1 with Eric Hynes from 2023-05-17T13:00:38

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 ep...

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Ep. 172: Amy Taubin on Dead Ringers, Warhol's Batman Dracula, High Flying Bird, Joie Lee, Elephant from 2023-05-13T21:21:12

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...

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Ep. 171: Beatrice Loayza on Erotic Thrillers + Dry Ground Burning + a NDNF pick from 2023-04-24T06:00:26

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 Ne...

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Ep. 170: K.J. Relth-Miller on the VardaVerse, Neptune Frost, Pat Rocco, and more from 2023-04-01T18:49:59

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 ...

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Ep. 169: Synecdoche, New York with Michael Joshua Rowin, plus Brakhage, Resnais, Duras from 2023-03-19T13:36:54

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...

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Ep. 168: True False 2023 with Eric Hynes on Hummingbirds, Art Talent Show, Time Bomb Y2K, more from 2023-03-10T06:01:08

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 Tr...

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Ep. 167: Berlin 2023 Six with Jordan Cronk: Hong’s In Water, Forum, Mal Viver, The Echo, Samsara from 2023-03-02T06:00:20

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. W...

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Ep. 166: Berlin 2023 Five with Inney Prakash: Notre Corps, Forum Expanded Exhibition, Kevin Everson from 2023-02-26T20:01:07

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...

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Ep. 165: Berlin 2023 Four with Jessica Kiang: Petzold's Afire, Reality, Shadowless Tower, Survival from 2023-02-24T06:01:07

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 w...

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Ep. 164: Berlin 2023 Three with Jonathan Romney: Schanelec’s Music, Limbo, Philibert, Superpower from 2023-02-23T09:00:27

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 t...

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Ep. 163: Berlin 2023 Two with Jordan Cronk: Garrel’s The Plough, Totem, Here, Disco Boy, D. Graf from 2023-02-21T03:05

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 we...

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Ep. 162: Berlin 2023 One with Giovanni Marchini Camia: The Adults, Manodrome, Margaret Tait, Orlando from 2023-02-19T20:56:23

Ep. 162: Berlin 2023 One with Giovanni Marchini Camia: The Adults, Manodrome, Margaret Tait, OrlandoWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I bring you the latest ...

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Ep. 161: Sundance 2023 Six with Eric Hynes: Drift, Kokomo City, 20 Days in Mariupol, Mami Wata from 2023-02-05T06:00

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 c...

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Ep. 160: Sundance 2023 Five with Jessica Kiang: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt + The Shere Hite Doc from 2023-02-02T21:55:39

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 Fes...

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Ep. 159: Sundance 2023 Four with Jessica Kiang: Past Lives, Passages, Notes from 2023-01-31T06:00:38

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 woun...

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Ep. 158: Sundance 2023 Three with Eric Hynes: Tuba Thieves, Rotting in the Sun, Cat Person from 2023-01-27T21:24:07

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 eve...

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Ep. 157: Sundance 2023 Two with Amy Taubin from 2023-01-26T06:39:23

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 event...

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Ep. 156: Sundance 2023 One with Eric Hynes from 2023-01-23T04:58:11

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 event...

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Ep. 155: Snubbed! with Michael Koresky, Eric Hynes, and Edo Choi from 2023-01-16T06:54:51

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 “Snubbe...

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Ep. 154: Mark Asch on Avatar 2, Michael Mann, Nope, Casa Susanna, World Cup from 2022-12-31T21:52:05

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, sta...

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Ep. 153: Bruce Bennett on Blue Collar, Canyon Passage, Ragtime, Ken Burns from 2022-12-24T07:01:22

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 ...

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Ep. 152: Amy Taubin on Godard, Greatest Films, and more from 2022-12-17T06:00:17

Ep. 152: Amy Taubin on Godard, Greatest Films, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m Nicolas Rapold. Critic Amy Taubin joins the podcast for another delightful year-end discussion. She sha...

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Ep. 151: Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza on Eternal Daughter, Genre, Recent Listing from 2022-12-11T20:04:12

Ep. 151: Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza on Eternal Daughter, Genre, Recent Listing Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m Nicolas Rapold. It’s been about a year since I was last joined by critics Ad...

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Ep. 150: Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed from 2022-12-05T06:00:34

Ep. 150: Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m Nicolas Rapold. One of the year’s best films is All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura P...

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Ep. 149: Bruce Bennett on Skolimowski’s Deep End, Baby Love, Chabrol Freakout, and more from 2022-11-28T07:00:23

Ep. 149: Bruce Bennett on Skolimowski’s Deep End, Baby Love, Chabrol Freakout, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This episode I had a wonderful time talking ...

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Ep. 148: IDFA #2 with Julian Ross: Manifesto, Documentary on Stage, and more from 2022-11-24T06:00:29

Ep. 148: IDFA #2 with Julian Ross: Manifesto, Documentary on Stage, and more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. To discuss another sampling of the slate at IDFA (the In...

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Ep. 147: Eric Hynes on IDFA 2022: Apolonia, Apolonia and beyond! from 2022-11-20T21:05:04

Ep. 147: Eric Hynes on IDFA 2022: Apolonia, Apolonia and beyond! Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year I take in a new crop of nonfiction films from around the ...

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Ep. 146: Margaret Barton-Fumo and Jonathan Hertzberg in Fun City: Morvern Callar, Heartbreakers... from 2022-11-06T05:00:15

Ep. 146: Fun City with Margaret Barton-Fumo and Jonathan Hertzberg, from Morvern Callar to Heartbreakers Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Critic and ol’ pal Margaret...

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Ep. 145: Elvis Mitchell on Is That Black Enough for You?!? from 2022-10-30T06:00:07

Ep. 145: Elvis Mitchell on Is That Black Enough for You?!? Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Elvis Mitchell is a critic I read early on in my career, and with this ep...

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Ep. 144: She Said, Women Talking, Aftersun, Catherine Called Birdy with Alissa Wilkinson from 2022-10-25T14:53:58

Ep. 144: She Said, Women Talking, Aftersun, Catherine Called Birdy with Alissa WIlkinson Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week for the first time on the podcast...

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Ep. 143: Park Chan-wook on Decision to Leave from 2022-10-20T19:21:06

Ep. 143: Park Chan-wook on Decision to Leave Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave is one of the best films of 2022, hands-down, showin...

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Ep. 142: Amy Taubin on Eo, Master Gardener, Alcarras, Tar, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed from 2022-10-12T20:47:21

Amy Taubin on Eo, Master Gardener, Alcarras, Tar, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Kira Muratova Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the New York Film Festival conti...

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Ep. 141: White Noise with Christian Lorentzen from 2022-10-03T05:31:52

White Noise with Christian Lorentzen Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The opening movie of the New York Film Festival was White Noise, which also opened the Venice fi...

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Ep. 140: Toronto #3: No Bears, Knives Out 2, The People’s Joker, The Menu, with Sam Adams from 2022-09-24T15:28:25

Toronto 2022 #3: No Bears, Knives Out 2, The People’s Joker, The Menu, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, with Sam Adams Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Toronto ...

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Ep. 139: Toronto 2022 #2: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Wendell&Wild, Eventide, Life, with Eric Hynes from 2022-09-18T14:46:19

Toronto 2022 #2: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Wendell&Wild, Eventide, Life, Victim, Cine-Guerrillas, The Fabelmans, with Eric Hynes Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Th...

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Ep. 138: Toronto 2022 #1: Women Talking, The Fabelmans, Inspection, Concrete Valley, with Mark Asch from 2022-09-12T06:00:30

Toronto 2022 #1: Women Talking, The Fabelmans, The Inspection, Concrete Valley, with Mark Asch Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The new movies keep on coming with th...

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Ep. 137: Venice #5: Blonde, Athena, Beyond the Wall, Happiest Man, Casa Susanna with Jonathan Romney from 2022-09-09T22:47:58

Venice #5: Blonde, Athena, Beyond the Wall, The Happiest Man in the World, Casa Susanna, with Jonathan Romney Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As this year’s action-...

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Ep. 136: Venice #4: Master Gardener, Dead for a Dollar, A Couple, Sergio Leone doc, with Glenn Kenny from 2022-09-08T06:00:10

Ep. 136: Venice: Master Gardener, Dead for a Dollar, A Couple, Sergio Leone doc, with Glenn Kenny Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This time at the Venice Film Festi...

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Ep. 135: Venice #3: The Whale, Eternal Daughter, Lav Diaz, Other People’s Children with Guy Lodge from 2022-09-07T18:48:21

Venice 2022: The Whale, The Eternal Daughter, Lav Diaz, Other People’s Children with Guy LodgeWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Venice Film Festival continues to r...

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Ep. 134: Venice #2: Laura Poitras, Martin McDonagh, Alice Diop, Olivia Wilde, with Jessica Kiang from 2022-09-06T00:08:05

Venice 2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Saint Omer, The Banshees of Inisherin, Don’t Worry Darling with Jessica Kiang Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Ven...

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Ep. 133: Venice 2022 #1: Tar, White Noise, Bardo with Jonathan Romney from 2022-09-02T16:15:15

Venice 2022: Tar, White Noise, Bardo with Jonathan Romney Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week, the Venice Film Festival opened, and I hereby begin my annual c...

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Ep. 132: Mark Asch on The Rehearsal, Chelsea Girls, I Like It Like That, Funny Pages from 2022-08-27T05:00:18

Mark Asch on The Rehearsal, Chelsea Girls, I Like It Like That, Funny Pages Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week on the program I talk with critic and bon viva...

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Ep. 131: James Vaughan on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Muratova, Mambéty, and More! from 2022-08-05T05:00:52

James Vaughan on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Muratova, Mambéty, and More! Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato is an incredible film festival of restoration...

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Ep. 130: Rico Gagliano and Eric Hynes on Memorable Moviehouses and Recent Viewing from 2022-07-21T21:48:33

Rico Gagliano and Eric Hynes on Memorable Moviehouses and More Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Recently, the MUBI Podcast launched a new season of episodes,"Only in...

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Ep. 129: Amy Taubin on Tribeca 2022 + Carax’s Extended Pola X + Artists Space from 2022-07-03T15:00:51

Amy Taubin on Tribeca 2022 + Leos Carax’s Pola X (extended TV version) + Artists Space Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I was delighted to catch up with Am...

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Ep. 128: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria with Kong Rithdee from 2022-06-24T21:25:28

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria with Kong Rithdee Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The movie Memoria from director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is still in U.S. the...

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Ep. 127: Shonni Enelow on Acting and Absorption in Joanna Hogg’s Films, plus Wanda from 2022-06-15T20:36:01

Ep. 127: Shonni Enelow on Acting and Absorption in Joanna Hogg’s Films, plus Wanda Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. My guest this week is scholar Shonni Enelow, talk...

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Ep. 126: Cannes #12 with Manohla Dargis: Broker, Hollywood, Leila’s Brothers, Mother&Son, Triangle from 2022-06-01T17:23:25

Cannes #12 with Manohla Dargis: Broker, Hollywood at Cannes, Leila’s Brothers, Mother and Son, Triangle of Sadness Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. My Cannes Film Fe...

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Ep. 125: Cannes #11 with Justin Chang: Showing Up, Tori and Lokita, Close, 3000 Years of Longing from 2022-05-30T05:00:30

Cannes #11 with Justin Chang: Showing Up, Tori and Lokita, Close, 3000 Years of Longing Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the 2022 Cannes Film Fes...

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Ep. 124: Cannes #10 with Jessica Kiang: Holy Spider, Corsage, Metronom, Showing Up from 2022-05-29T15:37:14

Cannes #10 with Jessica Kiang: Holy Spider, Corsage, Metronom, Showing Up Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival continue...

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Ep. 123: Cannes #9 with Mark Asch: Triangle of Sadness, Enys Men, Aftersun, Hunt from 2022-05-29T01:38:38

Cannes #9 with Mark Asch: Triangle of Sadness, Enys Men, Aftersun, Hunt Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with c...

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Ep. 122: Cannes #8 with Jonathan Romney: Decision to Leave, Burning Days, Super-8 Years, Blue Caftan from 2022-05-28T11:55:30

Cannes #8 with Jonathan Romney: Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, Burning Days, The Super-8 Years, Blue Caftan Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from...

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Ep. 121: Cannes #7 with Jordan Cronk: Stars at Noon, Pacifiction, Fogo-Fatuo, Diary of... from 2022-05-27T23:22:49

Cannes #7 with Jordan Cronk: Stars at Noon, Pacifiction, Fogo-Fatuo, Diary of a Fleeting Affair Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film ...

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Ep. 120: Cannes #6 with Eric Hynes: De Humani Corporis, R.M.N., Return to Seoul, Godland, Joyland from 2022-05-26T11:42:32

Cannes #6 with Eric Hynes: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, R.M.N., Return to Seoul, Godland, Joyland Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film...

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Ep. 119: Cannes #5 with Eric Hynes: War Pony, Rodeo, Brother and Sister from 2022-05-25T05:00:29

Cannes #5 with Eric Hynes: War Pony, Rodeo, Brother and Sister Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival continue with Eric Hynes...

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Ep. 118: Cannes #4 with Amy Taubin: Crimes of the Future and Forever Young (Les Amandiers) from 2022-05-24T06:06:59

Ep. 118: Cannes #4 with Amy Taubin: Crimes of the Future and Forever Young (Les Amandiers) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festi...

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Ep. 117: Cannes #3 with Eric Hynes: Eo, Armageddon Time, Ukraine doc Mariupolis 2 from 2022-05-23T01:02:44

Ep. 117: Cannes #3 with Eric Hynes: Eo, Armageddon Time, and Ukraine documentary Mariupolis 2 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Fe...

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Ep. 116: Cannes #2 with Mark Asch: Scarlet, Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Top Gun Maverick, Harka from 2022-05-21T18:51:46

Ep. 116: Cannes #2 with Mark Asch: Scarlet, Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Top Gun Maverick, Harka Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The highlights from the Cannes Film Festival...

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Ep. 115: Cannes #1 with Eric Hynes: The 2022 Edition! + Coupez! from 2022-05-19T10:57:01

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. I’m back at the Cannes Film Festival after a pandemic absence and couldn’t be more delighted to share the latest and greatest in film...

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Ep. 114: The Aesthetics of Cope, The Cathedral, Deepfake, Slade in Flame with Chloe Lizotte from 2022-05-04T17:40:33

Ep. 114: The Aesthetics of Cope, The Cathedral, Deepfake, Slade in Flame with Chloe Lizotte Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The show is back from spring break with ...

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Ep. 113: Jacques Audiard on Paris, 13th District from 2022-04-15T05:01:04

Ep. 113: Jacques Audiard on Paris, 13th District Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Paris, 13th District is the latest movie from Jacques Audiard, a writer-director who...

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Ep. 112: S.S. Rajamouli's RRR, Laida Lertxundi, Part Time Wife, Love Letter with R. Emmet Sweeney from 2022-04-07T22:27:48

Ep. 112: S.S. Rajamouli's RRR, Laida Lertxundi's Inner Outer Space, Leo McCarey's Part Time Wife, Kinuyo Tanaka's Love Letter with R. Emmet Sweeney Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, ...

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Ep. 111: Kyle Buchanan on Blood, Sweat&Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road from 2022-03-27T22:50:38

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. One of the greatest action movies of all time is also one of the most beautiful: Mad Max: Fury Road. It was on the top ten lists of 2...

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Ep. 110: Nadav Lapid on Ahed’s Knee from 2022-03-21T03:45:03

Episode 110: Nadav Lapid on Ahed’s Knee Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The filmmaker Nadav Lapid has made one tense, kinetic, indelibly original drama after another...

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Ep. 109: True/False 2022 with Eric Hynes + Joe Hunting on We Met in Virtual Reality from 2022-03-12T22:11:47

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This year the True/False Film Fest welcomed guests back for another edition, fully in-person with guests from all over the globe. I t...

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Ep. 108: Manohla Dargis, Lisa Kennedy, Amy Taubin from 2022-03-01T16:00:30

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Village Voice loomed large for me as a critic and an editor. The Voice I grew up with may be long gone, but it’s been a joy to co...

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Ep. 107: Berlin #6 with Edo Choi (Dario Argento, Rewind&Play, Sonne, Terra que marca) from 2022-02-23T07:00:23

Episode 107: Berlin #6 with Edo Choi (Dark Glasses, Rewind&Play, Sonne, A Little Love Package, Terra que marca) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the...

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Ep. 106: Berlin #5 with Giovanni Marchini Camia (Unrest, Mutzenbacher, Death of My Mother) from 2022-02-22T06:00:33

Episode 106: Berlin #5 with Giovanni Marchini Camia (Unrest, Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Mutzenbacher, The Death of My Mother, Alcarras) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapo...

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Ep. 105: Berlin #4 with Inney Prakash (Dry Ground Burning, Instant Life, Kegelstatt Trio, more) from 2022-02-18T20:42:13

Episode 105: Berlin #4 with Inney Prakash (Dry Ground Burning, Instant Life, Jet Lag, Super Natural, The Kegelstatt Trio) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continu...

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Ep. 104: Berlin #3 with Jordan Cronk (The Novelist’s Film, Afterwater, Coma, Benning, Denis Côté) from 2022-02-17T21:43:26

Episode 104: Berlin #3 with Jordan Cronk (The Novelist’s Film, Afterwater, Coma, United States of America, That Kind of Summer, more) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold....

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Ep. 103: Berlin #2 with Guy Lodge (Flux Gourmet, Robe of Gems, Small Slow but Steady, Brother in...) from 2022-02-16T22:19:57

Episode 103: Berlin 2022 #2 with Guy Lodge (Flux Gourmet, Robe of Gems, Small Slow but Steady, Brother in Every Inch, Fire, AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet of Love) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m y...

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Ep. 102: Berlin #1 with Jonathan Romney (Fire, Rimini, Incredible But True, Passengers of the Night) from 2022-02-16T00:01:48

Episode 102: Berlin 2022 #1 with Jonathan Romney (Fire, Rimini, Incredible But True, Passengers of the Night, A Piece of Sky, See You Friday, Robinson) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your ho...

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Episode 101: Sundance 2022 #7 with Jessica Green (Mija, Alice, God’s Country, Framing Agnes, more) from 2022-02-10T06:00:27

Episode 101: Sundance 2022 #7 with Jessica Green (Mija, Alice, God’s Country, The Exiles, Free Chol Soo Lee, Framing Agnes) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. So it tu...

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Episode 100: Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Lost Daughter from 2022-02-08T06:00:27

Episode 100: Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Lost Daughter Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It's the 100th episode! As a working critic and journalist, I always hope these ...

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Episode 99: Sundance 2022 #6 with Jon Dieringer (Leonor Will Never Die, Short Films, TikTok, Boom) from 2022-01-29T17:04:52

Episode 99: Sundance 2022 #6 with Jon Dieringer (Leonor Will Never Die, Short Films, TikTok, Boom, Cha Cha Real Smooth) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance ...

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Episode 98: Sundance 2022 #5 with Jourdain Searles (Emily the Criminal, Sharp Stick, Honk for Jesus) from 2022-01-28T18:11:25

Episode 98: Sundance 2022 #5 with Jourdain Searles (Emily the Criminal, Sharp Stick, Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, When You Finish Saving the World) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host...

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Episode 97: Sundance 2022 #4 with Beatrice Loayza (Dos Estaciones, Speak No Evil, jeen-yuhs) from 2022-01-27T07:00:24

Episode 97: Sundance 2022 #4 with Beatrice Loayza (Dos Estaciones, Speak No Evil, Brainwashed, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundan...

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Episode 96: Sundance 2022 #3 with Amy Taubin (Nanny, Master, Call Jane, Resurrection, The Cathedral) from 2022-01-26T17:47:43

Episode 96: Sundance 2022 #3 with Amy Taubin (Nanny, Master, Call Jane, Resurrection, You Won’t Be Alone) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival ...

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Episode 95: Sundance #2 with Eric Hynes (Dual, We Met in VR, A House Made of Splinters, Jihad Rehab) from 2022-01-23T22:50:56

Episode 95: Sundance 2022 #2 with Eric Hynes (Dual, We Met in Virtual Reality, A House Made of Splinters, Jihad Rehab) Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance F...

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Episode 94: Sundance 2022 #1 with Eric Hynes from 2022-01-21T21:50:53

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition that’s no less important for beginning the ...

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Episode 93: Days of Horror with Mike Civins (Angst, Alien Resurrection, The Cremator, and more) from 2022-01-11T15:11:34

Episode 93: Days of Horror with Mike Civins Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every October my good friend Mike Civins does a horror movie marathon. He watches 31 tit...

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Episode 92: Medieval Times with Caroline Golum (plus Master and Commander and Nightmare Alley) from 2022-01-04T07:00:02

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. At some point last year I learned that Caroline Golum -- a critic whom I read on Screen Slate -- was planning to make a movie about a...

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Episode 91: Around 1996 with Nick Davis (Crash, Smoke, Jerry Maguire, and more) from 2021-12-30T06:00:22

Episode 91: 1996 with Nick Davis Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s time to look back at the year in the movies—the year 1996, that is. Scholar and pal Nick Davis ...

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Episode 90: Amy Taubin on the Best of 2021 from 2021-12-18T19:58:45

Episode 90: Amy Taubin on the Best of 2021 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s that time of year again, when we look back at the year in movies. Joining me to share...

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Episode 89: Penny Lane on Listening to Kenny G from 2021-12-06T06:00:22

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. One of the year’s best films about culture is Listening to Kenny G, from filmmaker Penny Lane (who directed Hail Satan?). now availa...

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Episode 88: Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta with Margaret Barton-Fumo and Adam Nayman from 2021-12-03T15:03:10

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Paul Verhoeven’s hotly anticipated new movie, Benedetta, is set mostly in a convent in the 17th century, following its title charact...

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Episode 87: Eric Hynes on New Documentary at IDFA from 2021-11-29T18:39:52

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week we look at some outstanding documentary highlights premiered at IDFA(International Documentary Festival Amsterdam), includ...

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Episode 86: Dasha Nekrasova Talks About Movies, Including The Scary of 61st from 2021-11-25T06:00:29

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Back in the spring, I watched The Scary of 61st through the Berlin film festival, where it had its world premiere. I had to watch it ...

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Episode 85: A Chat with Jane Campion and DP Ari Wegner from 2021-11-17T17:15:55

Jane Campion’s new film The Power of the Dog first shapes up as a kind of Western family feud in the making. Two brothers, Phil and George Burbank, run things together peaceably, with Phil (played ...

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Episode 84: Some Cop Movies with Nicholas Russell from 2021-11-10T22:57:56

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. A while back I had a conversation with critic Nicholas Russell about the portrayal of law enforcement in movies. The general idea was...

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Episode 83: Inland Empire with Melissa Anderson from 2021-10-31T22:35:17

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This year marks the 20th anniversary of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, a movie that has never been too far from best-of lists. But I...

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Episode 82: Arrebato, Benedetta, Titane, and Sarah Maldoror with Jon Dieringer from 2021-10-24T23:17:38

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Right at the tail end of the New York Film Festival, I caught up with Jon Dieringer, editor and publisher of Screen Slate. We talked ...

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Episode 81: Todd Haynes on The Velvet Underground from 2021-10-19T23:40:21

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Todd Haynes’s documentary about The Velvet Underground is not just a musical feast, as one would expect, but it’s also a visually ric...

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Episode 80: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, with Set Chronicler Giovanni Marchini Camia from 2021-10-04T05:00:30

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The latest feature from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria, is coming to the New York Film Festival, after premiering in Cannes this...

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Episode 79: Amalia Ulman on El Planeta, Venice films, Chinese independents, and more from 2021-09-23T17:31:55

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. One of my favorite debuts in a while is El Planeta, directed by and starring Amalia Ulman. She plays a designer who lives with her m...

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Episode 78: Toronto and Camden with Eric Hynes, or, from Benediction to Procession from 2021-09-22T05:00:36

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This episode I’m back with highlights from not one but two festivals: The Toronto Film Festival, and the Camden festival, which speci...

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Episode 77: Toronto Film Festival with Amy Taubin from 2021-09-20T00:42:01

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As promised, this is another episode about notable movies from the Toronto Film Festival, with critic Amy Taubin. It’s also another e...

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Episode 76: Toronto Film Festival with Eric Hynes: An Invitation from 2021-09-17T20:19:27

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This is a special episode of the podcast for a couple of reasons. It introduces a series about notable premieres at the Toronto film ...

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Episode 75: 10 Skies and le cinema du sky with Erika Balsom from 2021-09-14T14:03:29

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Sometime in May or June, I had a marvelous conversation about the sky. Not just one sky, but 10 skies, in fact, with the critic Erika...

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Episode 74: Venice 6 – Reflection, Trenches, Catholic School, Parallel Mothers with Jessica Kiang from 2021-09-12T12:43:12

Episode 74: Venice 6 – Reflection, Trenches, The Catholic School, Parallel Mothers with Jessica Kiang Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. My 2021 Venice Film Festival ...

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Episode 73: Venice 5 – La Caja, L'Evenement, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon with Guy Lodge from 2021-09-11T05:00:27

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2021 Venice Film Festival series of podcasts continues with Variety critic Guy Lodge. I talked with Guy on the Lido about highli...

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Episode 73: Venice 5 – La Caja, L'Evenement, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon with Guy Lodge from 2021-09-11T05:00:27

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2021 Venice Film Festival series of podcasts continues with Variety critic Guy Lodge. I talked with Guy on the Lido about highli...

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Episode 72: Venice 4 – The Power of the Dog, The Lost Daughter, Hand of God with Christina Newland from 2021-09-10T05:00:47

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2021 Venice Film Festival series of podcasts continues with critic Christina Newland, whose work has been published in Sight&Sou...

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Episode 71: Venice 3 – Dune, Parallel Mothers, The Cathedral, The Card Counter with Glenn Kenny from 2021-09-08T21:43:56

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2021 Venice Film Festival series of podcasts continues with a deluxe installment featuring Glenn Kenny, a New York Times and Rog...

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Episode 70: Venice 2 – Last Night in Soho, Spencer, Il Buco with Jonathan Romney from 2021-09-06T05:00:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2021 Venice Film Festival is in full swing, and I sat down to chat with critic Jonathan Romney (The Observer, Screen Daily) about...

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Episode 69: Venice 1 - Paul Schrader Speaks from 2021-09-04T20:03:37

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Venice Film Festival has begun, with world premieres including Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mo...

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Episode 68: Newish Releases with Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza from 2021-08-28T05:00:15

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Before the onslaught of new fall releases, I thought it’d be nice to tackle three big summer titles. We start with Annette, the long...

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Episode 67: Locarno 2021 with Jordan Cronk from 2021-08-23T05:00:45

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s August and that means it’s time to talk about the Locarno film festival, which for years has been a reliable launching pad for ...

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Episode 66: Billy Wilder with Farran Smith Nehme, Sheila O’Malley, and Steven Mears from 2021-08-18T05:00:24

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. A few months ago I caught wind of a book with an intriguing title: Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Int...

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Episode 65: Rebecca Hall interview (The Night House) + Cannes catchup with Giovanni Marchini Camia from 2021-08-13T05:01:06

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. I like to bring together many kinds of movies on the show and this week’s deluxe episode is a case in point. We haven’t talked much ...

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Episode 64: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and Eric Hynes on The Viewing Booth from 2021-08-07T05:00:14

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s been a while since I’ve really focused on a documentary on the show, and a terrific opportunity came up with the release of The...

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Episode 63: Silent Film with James Vaughan (Friends and Strangers): Pabst, Murnau, and more from 2021-08-03T05:00:14

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. One of my favorite films this year hands-down is Friends and Strangers, directed by James Vaughan. It’s about a timid twenty-somethi...

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Episode 62: Cannes #11 - Cannes Classics: I Know Where I’m Going and more with Carlos Valladares from 2021-07-26T17:00:28

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s not as well-known as the main competition, but I have always loved Cannes Classics and its selection of restorations, revivals, ...

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Episode 61: Cannes #10 with Amy Taubin: Prayers for the Stolen, La Civil, Clara Sola, Rehana from 2021-07-25T05:00:11

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. We heard from Amy Taubin at the beginning of this Cannes series, and now that the festival has wound down, I got together with Amy o...

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Episode 60: Cannes #9 with Jonathan Romney: A Hero, Hit the Road, Paris 13th District, Petrov’s Flu from 2021-07-20T06:43:45

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For this week’s episode, I catch up with my colleague Jonathan Romney, a veteran critic of the festival circuit who regularly files ...

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Episode 59: Cannes #8 with Mark Asch: The French Dispatch, Red Rocket, Titane, Compartment No. 6 from 2021-07-17T06:00:56

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. By happenstance, we still have some of the biggest titles at Cannes to discuss, and I couldn’t be happier to talk about them with th...

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Episode 58: Cannes #7 with Carlos Valladares: Andrea Arnold’s Cow, Libertad, Futura, Drive My Car from 2021-07-16T01:25:09

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. There are only a few days left in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, but there are still plenty of excellent films left to tak about. So...

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Episode 57: Cannes #6 with Justin Chang: Blue Bayou, Stillwater, Bergman Island, After Yang from 2021-07-15T00:33:59

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Today we're talking with Justin Chang, film critic at The Los Angeles Times, about more movies from the Cannes Film Festival. We tal...

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Episode 56: Cannes #5 with Jordan Cronk: Benedetta, Ahed's Knee, The Worst Person..., Flag Day from 2021-07-13T02:35:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Today from the Cannes film festival, we hear about the much anticipated film from director Paul Verhoeven: Benedetta, about a young ...

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Episode 55: Cannes #4 with Guy Lodge: The Souvenir Part 2, Drive My Car, Lingui, the Sacred Bonds from 2021-07-11T22:07:19

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Today we’ll hear about the new film from Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Part 2, which continues the portrait of an artist begun in The So...

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Episode 54: Cannes #3 with Amy Taubin on Annette, A Chiara, Where Is Anne Frank? from 2021-07-10T21:55:35

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. We are back talking about the highlights of the Cannes film festival with critic Amy Taubin. Last time we talked about the Velvet Un...

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Episode 53: Amy Taubin on Todd Haynes's The Velvet Underground, Warhol's Factory, and Cannes 2021 from 2021-07-09T23:43:25

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week and so I joined forces with critic Amy Taubin, who is a veteran of the festival. This ...

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Episode 52: Mark Cousins on The Story of Film: A New Generation (Cannes) from 2021-07-07T19:24:24

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week, and part of its celebration of our collective return to movies is the world premiere of T...

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Episode 51: Abel Ferrara interview from 2021-07-06T19:20:20

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The director Abel Ferrara takes movies into the outer limits of experience and emotion, often challenging us with characters in the ...

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Episode 50: Amy Taubin on No Sudden Move, Another Screen + Amy Seimetz interview from 2021-07-04T05:00:20

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week is a two-part episode, with a special interview. First I chat with the one and only Amy Taubin about our recent viewing, s...

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Episode 49: In the Heights, Inside, The Driver, Tribeca, Amusement Park with Beatrice Loayza from 2021-06-28T05:00:29

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I was happy to chat again with the critic Beatrice Loayza, whom you might know from her reviews in The New York Times and ...

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Episode 48: Janicza Bravo interview (Zola) from 2021-06-23T18:00:19

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Directed by Janicza Bravo, Zola follows a Detroit waitress and dancer played by Taylour Paige as she goes along with her brand-new ...

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Episode 47: Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe on The Beta Test + Bruce Bennett on Zero Focus and more from 2021-06-13T06:00:13

You’re listening to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. First I interview the directors and co-stars of The Beta Test, a crackling new comedy of panic set in the double-talking wo...

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Episode 46: Christian Petzold Interview + Bruce Bennett on Budd Boetticher from 2021-06-03T18:13:41

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. First I chat with Christian Petzold, the delightful director of Transit, Phoenix, Barbara, and now Undine, which comes out June 4. U...

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Episode 45: Oliver Stone Interview from 2021-05-28T06:38:34

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For a period in the 1980s and 90s, Oliver Stone directed movies as if somebody might stop him at any time. His movies tended to land...

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Episode 44: True/False Film Fest with Cosmo B + Interview with Theo Anthony (All Light, Everywhere) from 2021-05-18T05:00:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year the True/False Film Fest puts together a terrific showcase of nonfiction film, and for several years I’ve headed out to C...

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Episode 43: Mommie Dearest, Terms of Endearment, Aliens with Michael Koresky and Molly Haskell from 2021-05-09T05:00:10

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For his new book, Films of Endearment, critic Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot) watched 10 movies from the 1980s with his mother, a fel...

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Episode 42: Movies and More with Manohla Dargis from 2021-05-03T06:59:19

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with the one and only Manohla Dargis, a chief film critic at The New York Times. We chose a couple of movies to watc...

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Episode 41: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Dirk Bogarde, and Godzilla Thoughts with Beatrice Loayza from 2021-04-26T05:00:41

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week the conversation starts with R.W. Fassbinder's serial drama Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day. My guest is a regular on the sho...

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Episode 40: Close to Home on Criterion + The Future of Streaming with Chris Wells and Nellie Killian from 2021-04-18T05:00:19

Streaming is a subject that’s often left weirdly opaque, but this week’s guests bring industry insights that are illuminating and informative. The starting point is a new series on the Criterion Ch...

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Episode 39: Interview with Alexander Nanau on Collective from 2021-04-09T05:01:11

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The film Collective is an investigation of corruption in the aftermath of a deadly fire in a Romanian nightclub that led to protests...

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Episode 38: The Red Balloon, Tony Longo, The Gleaners and I with Genevieve Yue and Nico Baumbach from 2021-04-04T05:00:10

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week Genevieve Yue tells us about a film series she programmed at Metrograph called Implicit Movies. It's a fascinating selecti...

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Episode 37: David Fincher and Donald Graham Burt Interview from 2021-04-02T05:00:50

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. For this special episode I talk with director David Fincher and production designer Don Burt about Mank, a black-and-white evocation ...

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Episode 37: David Fincher and Donald Graham Burt Interview from 2021-04-02T05:00:50

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. For this special episode I talk with director David Fincher and production designer Don Burt about Mank, a black-and-white evocation ...

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Episode 36: Johnny Firecloud, Straight Time, Bless Their Little Hearts with Adam Piron from 2021-03-28T06:00:19

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week we begin with some films from the cult label Something Weird Video: the revenge drama Johnny Firecloud, and a couple of fil...

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Episode 35: Movie Fun with Nick Pinkerton and Sean Price Williams from 2021-03-19T17:21:24

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. Critic Nick Pinkerton and cinematographer Sean Price Williams join this episode. Pinkerton’s new book on Tsai Mingliang’s wonderful f...

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Episode 34: Berlin Film Festival 2021 #5 with Jessica Kiang from 2021-03-15T07:31:39

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. For the final installment in our essential picks from the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, I’m joined by Berlin-based critic Jessica Kiang,...

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Episode 33: Berlin Film Festival 2021 #4 with Amy Taubin from 2021-03-12T06:30:08

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. The one and only Amy Taubin joins to talk about a couple of selections from the Berlin Film Festival and Berlin Critics’ Week, with s...

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Episode 32: Berlin Film Festival 2021 #3 with Ela Bittencourt from 2021-03-10T07:30:08

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. Brazil-based critic Ela Bittencourt, who has been reviewing for MUBI, joins to discuss a selection of movies in the Berlin Film Festi...

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Episode 31: Berlin Film Festival 2021 #2 with Jonathan Romney from 2021-03-08T02:18:29

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. London calling! Critic Jonathan Romney weighs in on the best from the Berlin Film Festival, which presented its slate of films online...

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Episode 30: Berlin Film Festival 2021 with Jordan Cronk from 2021-03-05T21:41:16

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. We’re giving a sneak preview of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, which presented its slate of films online this week (in advance...

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Episode 29: New Releases (Judas, The Father, more) with Beatrice Loayza and Nicholas Russell from 2021-02-28T08:00:22

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. We’re talking about new (or new-ish) releases this week, including Judas and the Black Messiah, The Father, I Care a Lot, and Saint M...

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Episode 28: Resnais, Looney Tunes, Joan Micklin Silver, and a secret film with Carlos Valladares from 2021-02-18T07:00:25

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This one's a wild journey with guest Carlos Valladares, a critic and Yale graduate scholar. Carlos is working on a project about the ...

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Episode 27: Rotterdam (and a Sundance smidgen) with Jordan Cronk from 2021-02-12T06:30:02

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. The Rotterdam film festival provides a launching pad for cutting-edge cinema that often ends up screening in New Directors / New Film...

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Episode 26: Sundance #5 with Amy Taubin from 2021-02-06T07:55:08

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. As our week of Sundance comes to a close, Amy Taubin returns to discuss Judas and the Black Messiah, Bring Your Own Brigade, a discov...

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Episode 25: Sundance #4 with Jessica Kiang from 2021-02-03T05:50:57

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this Sundance episode, critic Jessica Kiang (Variety, The Playlist) shares some of her recent favorites, including The Dog Who Wou...

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Episode 24: Sundance #3 with Beatrice Loayza from 2021-02-02T03:59:43

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, I’m joined by critic Beatrice Loayza, a frequent guest on the show. Among the ...

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Episode 23: Sundance #2 with Nicholas Russell and Eric Hynes from 2021-02-01T03:49:07

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. We’re back at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, this time talking with critics Nicholas Russell and Eric Hynes, who will both write ab...

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Episode 22: Sundance #1 with Eric Hynes from 2021-01-30T21:11:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode we talk about highlights from the first days of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with Eric Hynes, curator of film at M...

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Episode 21: Sundance 2021 with Amy Taubin from 2021-01-29T07:00:47

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode we look at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with the one and only Amy Taubin, who has been attending since the year of...

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Episode 21: Sundance 2021 with Amy Taubin from 2021-01-29T07:00:47

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode we look at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with the one and only Amy Taubin, who has been attending since the year of...

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Episode 20: The Best of 2020 with Amy Taubin, Eric Hynes, Jessica Kiang, and Beatrice Loayza from 2020-12-31T06:00:34

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This is the 20th episode of the podcast, and we’ll be sharing our highlights from the year in movies. You might notice a few likely c...

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Episode 19: Steve McQueen's Small Axe with Jonathan Romney and Nicholas Russell from 2020-12-18T08:34:43

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode I’m tackling a wonderful collection of new films by director Steve McQueen called Small Axe. The five Small Axe movie...

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Episode 18: Time with Amy Taubin + 70s Horror with Beatrice Loayza and Christina Newland from 2020-10-26T06:00:36

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week, I start with a featured look at Time, directed by Garrett Bradley. I talk with the wonderful Amy Taubin about the movie, w...

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Episode 17: New Beginnings, with Beatrice Loayza, Susannah Gruder, and Eric Hynes from 2020-10-12T17:36:22

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week, we’re trying something different. After our usual discussion of recently watched movies, I dig into a special topic with a...

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Episode 16: Rob Sweeney of Kino Lorber from 2020-10-01T21:35:54

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to folks to talk about what they've been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is R. Emmet Sweeney, produc...

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Episode 15: A Toronto Trio - Jordan Cronk, Eric Hynes, Beatrice Loayza from 2020-09-24T06:00:34

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time are critics Eric Hynes (cur...

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Episode 14: Amy Taubin and Michael Koresky on Toronto from 2020-09-18T06:00:38

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time are critics Amy Taubin and ...

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Episode 13: Jonathan Romney in Venice from 2020-09-11T07:37:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is veteran critic Jonathan ...

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Episode 12: Sheila O'Malley from 2020-09-04T07:01:04

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is culture critic Sheila O’...

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Episode 11: Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated from 2020-08-29T23:25:23

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is Soraya Nadia McDonald, c...

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Episode 10: Ela Bittencourt in Brazil from 2020-08-15T14:32:03

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is Brazil-based critic and ...

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Episode 9: Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times from 2020-08-08T21:08:26

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is Justin Chang, a staff cr...

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Episode 8: Amy Taubin from 2020-08-01T22:19:56

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is Amy Taubin, a mainstay o...

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Episode 7: Eric Hynes of the Museum of the Moving Image from 2020-07-15T22:11:14

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is Eric Hynes, curator of f...

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Episode 6: Richard Brody of The New Yorker from 2020-07-10T14:44:04

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold is Richard Brody of The New Yorker. T...

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Episode 5: BAM's Ashley Clark from 2020-06-01T21:43:21

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold is Ashley Clark, director of film pro...

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Episode 4: Nick Pinkerton and Nellie Killian from 2020-05-22T16:47:38

Critic Nick Pinkerton and programmer Nellie Killian join Nicolas Rapold to discuss isolation viewing and their recent favorites. You may have encountered Nick’s criticism in a variety of publicatio...

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Episode 3: Amy Taubin and Michael Koresky on Michelle Pfeiffer, Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy, and more from 2020-05-19T15:08:10

Critics Amy Taubin and Michael Koresky join Nicolas Rapold to discuss their recent favorites, including The Fabulous Baker Boys (and Michelle Pfeiffer’s star presence), Damien Chazelle’s new Netfli...

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Episode 2: Sarah Maldoror, Altman’s Quintet, Beatty’s Reds, and more from 2020-05-18T14:12

Nicolas Rapold talks with Devika Girish and Clinton Krute about Another Gaze magazine’s recent online symposium on the groundbreaking work of filmmaker Sarah Maldoror. We also discuss Warren Beatty...

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Episode 1: Nicolas Rapold, Devika Girish, and Clinton Krute from 2020-05-11T15:43:58

Nicolas Rapold talks with Devika Girish and Clinton Krute about the assortment of movies they’ve been watching in lockdown, including Jackie Chan’s Police Story, Indian classic Pakeezah, long await...

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