Double Trouble! Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light + Dave Kehr on To Save and Project at MoMA
Two new episodes of the podcast!
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
This week I present two (2) absolutely lovely new episodes of the podcast for your delectation.
First there’s a talk with Dave Kehr about a few highlights in the latest edition of To Save and Project, the festival of preservation and restoration at MoMA—including films by Frank Borzage, Robert Wiene, Victor Nunez, Emilio Fernandez.
And then a chat with Payal Kapadia, writer-director of the award-winning All We Imagine as Light, all about making her nuanced portrait of three women in Mumbai. Just some amazing detail here!
Plus the usual assorted goodies. Many thanks to the supporters of The Last Thing I Saw!
Nic
THE PODCAST
Dave Kehr on To Save and Project 2025: Seventh Heaven, Maria Candelaria, A Circle in the Fire, and more (Ep. 286)
Director Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light (Ep. 287)
Dave Kehr is curator in the Film department at the Museum of Modern Art, and was a longtime critic (Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times).
Payal Kapadia is the director and writer of All We Imagine As Light, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, and she was named Best Director by the National Society of Film Critics, among other recent honors.
Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at many other podcast places.
RECENT WORK
Steven Soderbergh’s Presence opens January 24, and I wrote this review for Sight & Sound when it premiered at Sundance last year. Watch it!
No Other Land opens January 31 despite having no distributor. That hasn’t stopped this essential documentary from winning one award after another. When it premiered at Berlin last year, I spoke with two of its co-directors, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham for Filmmaker.
THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Metrograph)
Little Odessa (MUBI) James Gray’s debut feature. I screened this once upon a time. New York locations (per the title)
A Face in the Crowd (Criterion) No reason.
The Princess Comes Across (Criterion) Carole Lombard plays someone playing Swedish royalty. This sort of thing used to happen a lot, apparently.
Pepe (MUBI) I found this a little murky but props for being narrated by a hippo imported to Colombia by Pablo Escobar. Also I enjoyed interviewing the director about his first feature, Cocote, in Locarno (also on MUBI)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Criterion) From the director of Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross
THE END
Here I may end with a song.
ABOUT ME
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw! I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. You can get in touch re: writing, editing, programming, moderating, podcasting, etc. 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 Financial 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 film series and one-offs I’ve programmed, revivals and premieres, so do drop me a line if you’d like to collaborate.
Editorially 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.
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