Amy Taubin on The New York Film Festival! Christian Lorentzen on Pavement(s)! Eric Hynes on Papal Intrigue!

And more than meets the eye!

Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,

The adventure continues! In podcast form. As the New York Film Festival started, I talked about some of the selection with Amy Taubin (e.g., Nickel Boys). Then I talked Pavement and Pavements with Christian Lorentzen, who was previously on the podcast delving into White Noise. And before all that, I chatted with Eric Hynes about some films that were shown in Toronto and may be shown again soon (e.g., Conclave).

You can find these episodes below, plus the usual goodies. With great thanks to all the supporters of The Last Thing I Saw!

Conversationally,

Nic

THE PODCAST

Amy Taubin on the New York Film Festival: Nickel Boys, My Undesirable Friends, New Godard and Serra, No Other Land, Union

Christian Lorentzen on Pavement(s)

Eric Hynes on Conclave, Friendship, Tata, The Last Republican, Winter in Sokcho (Toronto International Film Festival)

Eric Hynes is curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image and a critic with bylines in Reverse Shot, The New York Times, Film Comment magazine, and other publications. He recently appeared on The New York Times Culture Podcast with Times critic Wesley Morris to talk about “Apple’s Top 100” albums.

Christian Lorentzen is a critic and essayist whose work regularly appears in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, Bookforum, and other publications. Here is his substack.

Amy Taubin lives in New York City, where she writes about movies and art.

Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at many other podcast places.

RECENT WORK

For Filmmaker magazine, I interviewed Dea Kulumbegashvili, the director of April, which won a prize in Venice and has shown more recently in The New York Film Festival.

For Sight & Sound, I reviewed Pavements, the movie about the band Pavement, directed by Alex Ross Perry.

For The New York Times, I reviewed a heartstring-tugging documentary called Blink that was as affecting as its premise promised.

And I was invited back to the Financial Times podcast Life and Art, for a wonderful chat about Megalopolis.

THIS CRITIC’S PICKS

Adam Sandler: Love You (Netflix)

The Other Side (Le Cinema Club) Roberto Minervini

Evil Does Not Exist (Criterion)

Youth (Spring) (OVID) the first film in Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy

Two Shots Fired (MUBI) Martin Rejtman directs. Plus, his latest, The Practice

Reality+ (MUBI) a short by Coralie Forgeat, director of The Substance

Someone’s Watching Me (Criterion) TV movie directed by John Carpenter

THE END

Here I may end with a song.

ABOUT ME

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw! I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Feel free to get in touch re: writing, editing, programming, moderating, podcasting, etc. by writing me at nicolas.rapold[at]gmail.com

Besides hosting the podcast, I’m a writer, editor, and programmer. My features, interviews, festival reports, and reviews are published in The New York Times, Screen Slate, Sight & Sound, Filmmaker, Air Mail, The Los Angeles Times, and W Magazine. (Dearly departed publications include The Village Voice, Stop Smiling, The New York Sun, and The L Magazine.) I’m also proud of the series and one-offs I’ve programmed, both revivals and premieres, so do drop me a line if you’d like to collaborate.

Editor-ially speaking, I worked as editor-in-chief of Film Comment magazine, where I was for 15 years in all. I assigned and edited both web and print, hosted The Film Comment Podcast and Talks, curated and hosted Film Comment Selects screenings, learned from brilliant writers, and wrote a lot, including interviews with Spike Lee, Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Pedro Costa, and Frederick Wiseman. Film Comment received the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics.