Revivals and restorations from Il Cinema Ritrovato with K.J. Relth-Miller + Amy Taubin Summer Sequel
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
This week I’m catching up with two (2) episodes of The Last Thing I Saw. Perhaps you’ve already had a chance to listen to my latest with Amy Taubin, who discusses Agnieszka Holland’s excellent Green Border, work by Mireia Sallarès, and highlights from the Tribeca festival that hopefully someday will make their way to theaters.
And then this past week, I caught up with the great restoration-and-revival festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna thanks to K.J. Relth-Miller of the Academy Museum, who shared a panoply of movies, from L’Equipage (pictured above) to Deliverance in a rare print to the constantly evolving avant-garde work The Innerview.
There’s also a selection of my scribblings and streaming picks and — for those browsers equipped with 4DX technology — a cool summer breeze and some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Thank you to all the supporters who make The Last Thing I Saw possible!
Gratefully,
Nic
THE PODCAST
K.J. Relth-Miller on Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024: Sisters of Nishijin, Amadeus, Anatole Litvak, The Innerview, and more
K.J. Relth-Miller programs at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
Amy Taubin on Tribeca 2024 Picks, Agnieszka Holland and Green Border, Bleak Week, Mireia Sallarès’s Little Deaths
Amy Taubin lives in New York City, where she writes about movies and art. Here’s the article she wrote about Mireia Sallarès’s Little Deaths.
Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at many other podcast places.
RECENT WRITING
There’s a delightful new documentary about Brian Eno, and so I interviewed the film’s director, Gary Hustwit, about his generative approach, which allows every screening to be a different mix of material. (N.B. The image above depicts cards from Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” for creative inspiration.)
My latest Air Mail assignment is a review of director Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, which covers the making of Desperately Seeking Susan (shot by Ed Lachman!) but also just the Hollywood grind.
For The New York Times, I reviewed Dandelion, starring KiKi Layne as a singer-songwriter.
THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Streaming selections for your enjoyment
Aftersun (Netflix) See if you have not
A Still Small Voice (MUBI) Great documentary about a hospital chaplain who’s burning out. I reviewed it when it premiered at Sundance
L.A. Confidential (Criterion)
Black God, White Devil (Criterion) Glauber Rocha
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (MUBI) I remember liking this wide-ranging music doc when it came out
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 my 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.
I’ve also worked as editor-in-chief of Film Comment magazine, where I was for 15 years in all. There 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.