The Last Thing I Saw

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. The new movies keep on coming with the latest from the Toronto International Film Festival! This time I chat with Eric Hynes, curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, who shares his thoughts on Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Sharon Lockhart’s Eventide, Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild (with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key), Emir Baigazin’s Life, Mila Turajlić’s Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels, Michal Blaško’s Victim, and more on The Fabelmans. Check back for more films to keep an eye on! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 the latest from the Toronto International Film Festival! I kick off my reports with this streetside chat with critic Mark Asch. We discuss Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection, and Antoine Bourges’ Concrete Valley (which is in fact set in Toronto). Check back for more films to keep an eye on! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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-packed Venice Film Festival draws nearer to the end, I return to the airwaves with veteran critic Jonathan Romney. We discuss the much-anticipated Marilyn Monroe picture Blonde, from director Andrew Dominik, starring Ana de Armas; Romain Gavras’s Athena; Beyond the Wall, from Iran’s Vahid Jalilvand; Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World; and Sebastien Lifshitz’s documentary Casa Susanna. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 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 Festival, I talk with critic Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.Com and The New York Times about Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener, Walter Hill’s Dead for a Dollar, Frederick Wiseman’s A Couple, and documentaries about Sergio Leone and Richard Harris. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Venice 2022: The Whale, The Eternal Daughter, Lav Diaz, Other People’s Children with Guy Lodge Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Venice Film Festival continues to roll out films that are sure to be the subject of discussion this fall, and this time, I talk with critic Guy Lodge of Variety about Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser; the new Joanna Hogg film, The Eternal Daughter, very much starring Tilda Swinton; Lav Diaz’s When the Waves Are Gone; and Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Venice Film Festival continues to roll out films that are sure to be the subject of discussion this fall, and this time, I talk with critic Jessica Kiang about notable titles from the past few days: Laura Poitras’s film about Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Kerry Condon; Alice Diop's astonishing debut fiction feature, Saint Omer; and Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. Check back for more from Venice! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 coverage of the festival’s highlights, live from the Lido. I talk with the veteran critic Jonathan Romney about the first volley of films at this annual showcase that inaugurates the fall season: Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig; Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett, with Nina Hoss and Noémie Merlant; and Bardo, the latest opus from Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho. Stay tuned for more from Venice! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 vivant Mark Asch about some recent, brain-tickling viewing. We talk about Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal, Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, Darnell Martin’s I Like It Like That, and Owen Kline’s Funny Pages, along with observations on best-of-all-time lists, cinephilia, and who knows what else. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 restorations, revivals, and retrospectives that takes place every year in Bologna, Italy. It’s a source of discovery (and/or envy) for many film lovers, and so when I heard the filmmaker James Vaughan—director of Friends and Strangers, one of my favorite movies in recent years—was attending, I knew we had to talk. Vaughan was a guest on The Last Thing I Saw last summer to talk about some very fine silent films he had been watching. In Bologna, he was looking at movies for the Sydney-based film festival Cinema Reborn, and some of his favorites included work by Kira Muratova, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Arby Ovanessian—plus the Weimar Cinema comedy The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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 Theaters," about the way certain films and moviehouses have intertwined histories, such as the Elgin in New York and the midnight movie phenomenon. So I invited Rico Gagliano, the host of the acclaimed MUBI Podcast, and Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to talk about some stand-out cinemas—both historic and personally meaningful. Our chat ranges from the Cinematheque francaise and the Tuschinski to the local theaters where each of us grew up watching movies. We also talk about recent viewing and re-watches, from recent documentaries Beba and Nothing Lasts Forever, to Paddington and the Paul Simon vehicle One-Trick Pony. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass