Directors Bertrand Bonello and Garrett Bradley Speak + Repertory Riches with Caroline Golum
THE BEAST - JOHN CARPENTER - MAN'S CASTLE - TIME - AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE - MORE MORE MORE
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with two filmmakers for the podcast about their work, basically back to back. The first is with Garrett Bradley, whose incredible documentary Time is one of my favorite of this decade. Next up was Bertrand Bonello, director of the mind-melting, time-skipping The Beast, starring Léa Seydoux and George Mackay.
But that’s not all! It was high time for another trip through New York’s repertory riches, and who better to lead the way than Caroline Golum. She returns to the podcast with stories to tell of moviegoing and moviemaking.
So there you have it. Thank you to all the supporters of The Last Thing I Saw who make the podcast possible.
Nic
THE PODCAST
Caroline Golum on Quebec-Core, Ghosts of Mars, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Borzage’s Man’s Castle
Bertrand Bonello on The Beast, Experimenting with AI, Making Melodrama, Reading Henry James
Time director Garrett Bradley on Devotion, Instincts, America, and Satyajit Ray’s Devi
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THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Streaming selections
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (MUBI) Radu Jude’s sensational film comes to streaming
Affliction (Shout! Factory TV) Paul Schrader directs Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn. As far as I can tell this is free to stream?
Tótem (Criterion) Lovely family drama directed by Lila Avilés
Dead End Drive-In (Criterion) Fans of ’80s-facing films like Love Lies Bleeding might enjoy the lush design in this one. I did.
El Sicario, Room 164 (OVID) Documentary about a hit man from Gianfranco Rosi and Charles Bowden
Picnic (Criterion) William Holden and Kim Novak in Cinema Scope. Once featured on an episode of The Last Thing I Saw
RECENT WRITING
I enjoy doing interviews for Museum of the Moving Image’s Sloan site, and here’s my latest, with the director of an invigorating documentary about Finnish eco-activists, Once Upon a Time in a Forest.
Now that Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist is in theaters, here’s my Sight & Sound review from its world premiere at Venice last year. And as a bonus, my 2021 New York Times feature talking with Hamaguchi and Haruki Murakami about Drive My Car several months before that movie won an Academy Award.
THE END
Here I may end with a song. Special 50 Years of Brian Eno’s “Third Uncle” Edition.
ABOUT ME
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw! I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Feel free to get in touch re: writing, editing, moderating, programming, podcasting, etc. by writing me at nicolas.rapold[at]gmail.com
Besides hosting the podcast, I’m a writer and an editor. 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. (Plus dearly departed publications such as The Village Voice, Stop Smiling, The New York Sun, and The L Magazine.) For notes on my superfun programming experience, drop me a line.
On the editorial side, 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.