The Last Thing I Saw
Critic Nicolas Rapold talks with guests about the movies they've been watching. From home viewing to the latest from festivals and retrospectives. Named one of the 10 Best Film Podcasts by Sight & Sound magazine. Guests include critics, curators, and filmmakers.
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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 Hawley and Michael Galinsky), and...
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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 festival’s daily. Among the...
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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 this year’s Silent Mov...
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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 Dream Machine. Among t...
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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: Jourdain Searles, critic ...
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July 4, 2026 • 31 mins
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 was eager to chat wit...
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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 Amy Taubin. She shares a few Tribeca...
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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 own history. This year I chatted wit...
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June 11, 2026 • 41 mins
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 American Cinematheque in Los Angeles and...
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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 to watch. And so for the late...
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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-Miller of the Academy Museum in Los Ang...
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May 30, 2026 • 45 mins
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, Dargis shares her thoughts ...
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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 and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa...
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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 (directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda), The Dr...
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Ep. 403: Nick Davis on Cannes 2026: The Dreamed Adventure, Red Rocks, A Man of His Time, Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building, Flesh and Fuel
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I joyfully reunited with Nick Davis, a professor in the Department of English at Northwestern, an associate programmer with the Chicago International Film Festival, and longtime critical colle...
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May 26, 2026 • 27 mins
Ep. 402: Keva York on Cannes 2026: The Unknown, Everytime, Libertad Doble
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I chatted with Keva York, a past guest on the podcast who was filing pieces from Cannes for Filmmaker and n+1 magazine. We discussed a few differently entrancing films from this year’s edition: The Unknown (directed by Arthur Harari, starring Léa Seydoux),...
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Ep. 401: Robert Daniels on Cannes 2026: Ben’Imana, A Man of His Time, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, Clarissa Redux
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I caught Robert Daniels, New York Times critic and associate editor of RogerEbert.Com, just before he was wrapping up his festival visit. Among the films discussed were later Camera d’Or winner Ben&rsqu...
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Ep. 400: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Paper Tiger, Bola Negra, 9 Temples to Heaven, Thank You for Coming
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival underway, I was happy to chat once again with Eric Hynes of the Jacob Burns Film Center. Among the films discussed were Paper Tiger (directed by James Gray, discussed with perhaps evident New York homesickness?), Bola Negra (Javier...
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May 22, 2026 • 38 mins
Ep. 399: Guy Lodge on Cannes 2026: The Man I Love, Bitter Christmas, A Woman’s Life
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival underway, I was delighted to sit down with Guy Lodge of Variety. Among the latest premieres discussed were a trio of Competition titles: The Man I Love (directed by Ira Sachs), Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar), and A Woman’s Life (Charl...
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Ep. 398: Chloe Lizotte on Cannes 2026: Minotaur, Fjord, Full Phil and Tim Heidecker, Hope
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival underway, I was delighted to sit down with Chloe Lizotte, Filmmaker Magazine’s Content Director. Among the latest premieres discussed were, oddly enough, a succession of mostly one-word titles: Minotaur (directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev), F...
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