Summer Releases Episode Including Trap, Janet Planet, More!

Starring new guests to the podcast and oodles of commentary!

Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,

What a summer, huh? (Wait for cheers, applause, quizzical murmurs to subside.)

This week, I took a look at a few releases from the past couple of months, including but not limited to the latest M. Night Shyamalan film, Trap, which is about the arena-sized dragnet set for a killer/dad played by Josh Hartnett. Above pic is not from Trap; that’s from Annie Baker’s Janet Planet, also about a parent and child, oddly.

Two new guests join me on this episode! Details below. Look out for more this month as I shake off the summer torpor and cannonball back into the podcasting pool.

Thank you to all the supporters who make The Last Thing I Saw possible!

Gratefully,

Nic

THE PODCAST

Trap, Twisters, This Closeness, Janet Planet, Last Summer with Maxwell Paparella and Elissa Suh

Maxwell Paparella is assistant editor at MUBI Notebook, which recently published its latest edition of The Notebook Insert, "The Sporting Image."

Elissa Suh is a writer and critic who has been published in Screen Slate, Vogue, MUBI Notebook, Eater, LitHub, and more. Her newsletter is MOVIEPUDDING.

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

RECENT WORK

For my latest at Air Mail, I reviewed the book The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982.

Somebody recently brought up a feature I once wrote on Vera Chytilova’s Daisies recently, and since it’s screening this week in New York, here it is.

THIS CRITIC’S PICKS

The Gods of Times Square (Criterion) Certainly as I remember it

Sherman’s March (Le Cinema Club) The one, the only. Must-see

Wendy and Lucy (MUBI) KR 4-EVA

Pictures of Ghosts (Criterion) Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Metrograph)

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.