More Movie Fun with Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton! Plus tasty movie picks to add to salads and snack on
They return to The Last Thing I Saw to talk about filmmaking in addition to film-watching
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
December is underway and already I have begun to grow my thick, lustrous winter coat. For my latest episode, Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton return to the podcast to talk about making The Sweet East, movies they’ve been watching, and a couple of other intriguing projects in the publishing and Kim’s Video realms. What a joy.
It’s also the season of Top Ten lists and Best Movies in the Universe. I’ll have more to say about that soon enough, so be sure to stay tuned, and share The Last Thing I Saw with fellow movie buffs, film enthusiasts, and motion picture mavens.
Thank you to everyone for supporting The Last Thing I Saw, an invaluable aide-memoire for guests who later want to double-check the last things they saw.
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Yours,
Nic
THE PODCAST
Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East and Recent Viewing
Sean Price Williams directed and shot The Sweet East, which is now in theaters after premiering at Cannes and screening in The New York Film Festival and other festivals. The Sweet East stars Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi, Jeremy O. Harris, Ayo Edebiri.
Nick Pinkerton wrote The Sweet East, for which he won the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award for Best Screenplay.
They previously appeared on The Last Thing I Saw for more movie fun.
Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at other podcast places such as Spotify.
RECENT WORK
My latest New York Times review is Godzilla Minus One, which seems to be storming the box office. It’s impressive in a number of ways, though people may be going a bit overboard about it. But I get it—he’s Godzilla.
Also for the Times, I reviewed Bad Press, a tick-tock chronicle of the battle for press freedoms in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Streaming selections.
Saint Omer (Hulu)
Clouds of Sils Maria (MUBI) Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche in a mysterious backstage psychodrama. Part of a cache of Olivier Assayas films on MUBI
Repeat Performance (Criterion) Wonderfully deflating 1940s redo yarn
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix) The Coen Brothers’ star-studded Western story anthology, perhaps one of their least talked about films
Hotel Coolgardie (Amazon Prime) The outback bartending documentary that inspired the movie The Royal Hotel is in some ways bleaker and more upsetting
How to Have an American Baby (PBS) I saw this fascinating documentary about women who travel from China to give birth in the U.S. but alas didn’t get a chance to review it. But check it out – it’s premiering December 11 on PBS and streamable at that point (instructions here)
THE END
Here I may end with a song.
Rainy day music
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.