Sundance Returns, and I Return to Sundance! Plus: I Heard It Through the Grapevine (the Movie)
Festival premieres + James Baldwin
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
The Sundance Film Festival is upon us. The snow is upon me. Independent cinema has landed on my head.
What I’m trying to say is: I have once again seen movies and recorded conversations about them. I have done this twice more, to be precise. Once with Amy Taubin, mostly not about Sundance. And then with Eric Hynes, all about Sundance.
There’s more to come, but please enjoy these in good health.
Thanks, dear supporters of The Last Thing I Saw!
Nic
THE PODCAST
Amy Taubin on I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Fellow Travelers, Sundance Past + My Napoleon
Amy Taubin most recently interviewed Steven Soderbergh about Presence for Filmmaker magazine.
Sundance 2024 with Eric Hynes: Notes, Power, Black Box Diaries, Agent of Happiness
Eric Hynes is curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, and a critic and reporter. Since 2004 he has been a staff writer for Reverse Shot.
Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at other podcast places such as Spotify.
THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Streaming selections.
Lucy (Netflix)
Bottle Rocket (MUBI)
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (MAX, formerly known as HBO MAX)
L. 627 (Criterion)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Criterion) As featured on my pod with Bruce Bennett!
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, 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.