The Last Thing I Saw

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 whose work has spanned many genres, from The Beat That My Heart Skipped to Rust and Bone to The Sisters Brothers. Paris 13th District is Audiard’s unabashed look at a younger generation in love, and it star...

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, Nicolas Rapold. It’s time for a good old-fashioned romp through recent viewing, with guest R. Emmet Sweeney of Kino Lorber. He shares his experience with S. S. Rajamouli’s new adventure, RRR, as well as t...

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 2015 and more than a few best of the decade lists. But making the movie was no walk in the park, and a new oral history by Kyle Buchanan is full of well-researched and entertaining detail about the movie’...

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: Policeman, The Kindergarten Teacher, Synonyms, and now Ahed’s Knee. Ahed’s Knee premiered at the Cannes film festival last year where it shared the Jury Prize with Memoria, and it opened in New York on...

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 try to go every year to take advantage of its delicious nonfiction smorgasbord, and joining me to talk about the selection is Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image and a longtime a...

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 continue reading my favorite critics who wrote there. For this episode, I’m honored to bring together three all-star alumnae of the Village Voice to talk about movies. Manohla Dargis, the co-chief film cri...

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 Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. For what might be the last episode on this year’s edition, I talked with Edo Choi, assistant curator at Museum of th...

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 Rapold. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk with Giovanni Marchini Camia, a critic (Sight & Sound and more), editor (Fir...

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 continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk Fun at the Forum (and Forum Expanded) with programmer Inney Prakash of Maysles Cinema and P...

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. We continue with the Berlin festival series, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. I joined forces with Jordan Cronk, critic (MUBI Notebook and elsewhere) and programmer (Acropoli...

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 your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Berlin festival series continues, highlighting the intriguing new films you should know about. This time I talk with Guy Lodge, a regular critic for Variety. We discuss Peter...

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 host, Nicolas Rapold. The Berlin International Film Festival is underway and I kicked off this edition’s podcasts with series regular Jonathan Romney, a critic writing for Screen Daily and The Observer amon...

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 turns out I have one more episode of Sundance films to share. I was joined by Jessica Green, artistic director of the Houston Cinema Arts Society, who brought several films that haven’t been discussed yet o...

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 podcasts add something new to the discussion. And for that I have to thank my guests, all the talented critics and filmmakers who have joined me, and of course my listeners for listening. Finally, a speci...

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 Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. As we enter the final days (of the festival), I was joined by Jon Dieringer, editor and publisher of the estimable...

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, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I’m very pleased to welcome a terrific critic I’ve been wanting to...

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 Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I chat with Beatrice Loayza, a New York Times contributor and an editor at the Criterion Colle...

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 is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I’m delighted to talk with the one and only Amy Taubin about yet another year of Sundance selections. We talk about a few...

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 Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere, screening in a virtual edition. We’re nearing the end of a packed weekend of premieres and I joined forces once again with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Muse...

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 2022 movie calendar. I joined forces with Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to talk about the independent-minded festival in general and to highlight a couple of movies that jump...

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 titles over 31 days, like clockwork. I have always been curious about his project, which happily ranges far and wide and includes movies that aren’t often thought of as a horror. This year he watched the Al...

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 medieval mystic. For this episode, Caroline joins us to talk about movies set in olden times and how they envision the past. Two recent titles came to mind: The Last Duel, which is based on a true story...

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 joins me to revisit movies from a pivotal year early in our rabid moviegoing. Our trips down memory lane take us through Hollywood productions like The People vs. Larry Flynt and Jerry Maguire, and indep...

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 her highlights is the critic Amy Taubin, a regular guest on the podcast. We start with one movie you might not have heard as much about this year, and go on to trade our top picks, with reflections on a...

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 available on streaming. If the name Kenny G sets off alarm bells in your head, rest assured that this is not a goofy movie about something “so bad it’s good” or that pushes a case for Kenny G as an unsung mast...