The Last Thing I Saw

Ep. 428: Jon Dieringer of Screen Slate on Screaming Mad George series, New Resident Evil, plus Notes on Chronicling Repertory Culture Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Founded by mastermind Jon Dieringer, Screen Slate remains a delightful guiding light for film-lovers of all stripes to read listings and criticism spanning the wild array of movies and moving-image cul...

Ep. 427: Amy Taubin on Arthur Jafa, NYFF: La Gradiva, Rose, Naza, Everything Else Is Noise, I Deserve a Lover, The Unknown, The Dreamed Adventure, plus Godard Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the fall film season begins in New York, I sat down once again with Amy Taubin to make sense of it all. We talked about The New York Film Festival 2026, but first Taubin sin...

Ep. 426: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Julia Loktev’s continuing chronicle of Russian independent journalists My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile had its world premiere at the Venice film. I sat down with Loktev in Venice to talk about her equally stirring and urgent Part II. We delved into the trust involve...

Ep. 425: Robert Daniels on Toronto 2026: Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Union Town, Alpha Gang, The Liberation, I Play Rocky Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off its 51st edition this year, and I saw as many films as I could fit into my visit to the city. Here to talk about some more is Robert Daniels, regular New York Tim...

Ep. 424: Mark Asch on Toronto 2026: Tender Loving Care, The Debut, Misty Green, Idda, The Face of Horror Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off its 51st edition this year, and I saw as many films as I could fit into my visit to the city. Here to talk about a few is Mark Asch, who’s writing for a number of publications. Among the t...

Ep. 423: Jessica Kiang on Venice 2026: Bunker, Possible Love, Queer Edward II, Mr. Nelson Did You Kill People, Oasis Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the 2026 edition of the Venice Film Festival winds down, I was delighted to sit down with Jessica Kiang of Variety to talk about a few more selections. Among the films discussed are Bunker (directed by Florian Zelle...

Ep. 422: Jonathan Romney on Venice 2026: Dau, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolucci by Guadagnino, Musk, plus Naza Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined on the Lido by Jonathan Romney, who writes criticism at Screen Daily and the Observer. Among the films discussed are Dau (directed by...

Ep. 421: Guy Lodge on The Spiral, A Place to Heal, Boatbuilders, Agata the Writer Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined on the Lido by Guy Lodge of Variety. Among the films discussed are The Spiral (directed by Paolo Strippoli, featuring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), A Place to Heal (Cedric...

Ep. 420: Tim Grierson on Possible Love, Primetime, and A Woman Unknown Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined by Tim Grierson of Screen Daily, also a regular contributor to several other publications. Among the Venice world premieres discussed are three Competition titles: Possible Love...

Ep. 419: Beatrice Loayza on Venice 2026: Ink, Wild Horse Nine, Imperium, More Basics of Philosophy Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined by Beatrice Loayza, a regular contributor to The New York Times and other publications. Among the Venice world premieres discussed are the opening fi...

Ep. 418: Jordan Cronk on Venice 2026: Bucking Fastard, The Basics of Philosophy, My Undesirable Friends Part II Exile, Too Much Sugar Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns to the Venice film festival in, you guessed it, Venice, Italy! I kick off this year’s edition with Jordan Cronk, critic and co-founder of Acropolis Cinema in Los Angeles. We discuss...

Ep. 417: Mark Asch on No Picnic, Late Fame, Half-Cocked, Welcome II the Terrordome, Wet Hot American Summer, One Night Only Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This August I welcomed back Mark Asch for another summertime episode extravaganza. This time we talk about some of his recent viewing from the past—No Picnic (directed by Philip Hartman), Half-Cocked (Suki Hawle...

Ep. 416: Keva York on Locarno 2026: Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, 16 Moments in My Life, Donkey Princess, Asphalt Guerrilla Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 79th Locarno Film Festival is wrapping up and joining me for a chat about some of the highlights is returning guest Keva York, a critic who’s also working away as an editor for the festi...

Ep. 415: R. Emmet Sweeney on Wings of Dread, MoMA Silent Movie Week, Oh Darling Yeh Hai India, Blades of the Guardians, Driver’s Ed Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. I always look forward to my regular check-in with R. Emmet Sweeney, who oversees physical media production at Kino Lorber and writes on film and jazz at his substack Old New. This time we trade notes on...

Ep. 414: Alissa Wilkinson on Jackass, The Odyssey, Ross McElwee’s Remake and Sherman’s March, Recent Viewing Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. After a summer break avoiding the flocks of the Sun God, I was delighted to welcome back to the show Alissa Wilkinson, a movie critic at The New York Times and author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American...

Ep. 413: Jourdain Searles and Maxwell Paparella on Backrooms, Maddie’s Secret, I Love Boosters, Rose of Nevada, Disclosure Day Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the summer settles in, I thought it was high time to catch up with a few theatrical releases of note. I had a wonderful time with my two guests who’ve each previously been on the show but not together: Jou...

Ep. 412: Pierre Coffin on Minions and Monsters Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Somehow Minions and Monsters was just the heaping serving of nuttiness that I needed last week! But what I hadn’t quite anticipated was the extent of the movie's Hollywood references—ranging from Citizen Kane all the way back to... Eadweard Muybridge?! The movie love was evident and so I...

Ep. 411: Amy Taubin on Tribeca 2026 (Labrador: Autopsy of Silence, Jail Time Records, The Lorraine, Jean-Michel, Crocodile, They Fight, The Last Day), plus Romeria and I Love Boosters Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As has become our wont, I had the total pleasure of talking over films from the 2026 Tribeca Festival and other recent viewing with the one and only Am...

Ep. 410: Caroline Golum on The Nitrate Picture Show 2026: Midnight, The Little Match Girl, When Tomorrow Comes, Bellissima, and much more Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman House has become an annual pilgrimage for film lovers, who come to see an array of titles from Hollywood and beyond, shown on prints, each with its ow...

Ep. 409: Chris LeMaire on Bleak Week + John Wilson on Beak Week 2026 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2026 edition of Bleak Week marks the fifth year of the acclaimed series at the American Cinematheque, which now also takes place in other theaters across the nation and the globe. Happily I was able to talk to Chris Lemaire, director of programming at the Americ...

Ep. 408: Tubi programmer Ryan Lavallette on The In-Laws, Magic, 20 Questions, Arlington Road, Scorpio, Captain Ron, Report to the Commissioner, Skinamarink Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Tubi holds a special place among streamers for its free, wildly eclectic selection, and I’m not the only one who goes trawling through its selections to find something different t...

Ep. 407: K.J. Relth-Miller on Cannes Classics 2026: La Dérive, The Devils, Report to Mother, Moonlighting, Tilai, The Pelechian Project Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year at the Cannes Film Festival I always make sure to scrutinize the Cannes Classics line-up of restorations, and for the 2026 edition, I was happy once again to catch up with K.J. Relth-Mille...

Ep. 406: Manohla Dargis on Cannes 2026 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival drew to a close, I was fortunate again to sit down with Manohla Dargis, chief film critic of The New York Times, for our annual Cannes finale. The films discussed included titles that hadn’t been addressed yet on the podcast, as well as some that had. Throughout,...

Ep. 405: Justin Chang on Cannes 2026: All of a Sudden, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Coward, Fjord Redux Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I sat down with Justin Chang of The New Yorker for a chat about a few films we had missed to talk about. Among the titles discussed are All of a Sudden (directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), The Samurai...

Ep. 404: Jessica Kiang on Cannes 2026: Sheep in the Box, The Dreamed Adventure, Too Many Beasts, The Unknown, La Perra, Colony Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I sat down with Jessica Kiang of Variety and the Berlinale for our customary epic pod by the light of French Riviera sun. Among the films discussed were Sheep in the Box (dire...