The Complete Cannes 2024 Collection
All the episodes, all the good times, a party in podcast form!
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
As promised, here are all the Cannes 2024 episodes of The Last Thing I Saw, featuring a glorious array of brilliant critics (and kicking off with a chat with a director).
They’re in the order of publication except for the newest episode: a chat with Amy Taubin, who talked about both Cannes films and New York repertory.
It’s a lot of work arranging, recording, and producing the podcast, so if you’re not already a paid subscriber of The Last Thing I Saw, I encourage you to sign up, even just for a month. It’ll make it possible for me to keep yammering away for your entertainment.
Thank you to all my supporters and my wonderful colleagues!
Nic
THE PODCAST
Amy Taubin on Carax’s It’s Not Me, The Shrouds, Charles Atlas, Arthur Jafa, Man Ray, more
Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers! and recent favorites
Eric Hynes on Megalopolis, plus Napoleon and The Girl With the Needle
Alissa Wilkinson on Furiosa, Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Ghost Trail, Sergei Loznitsa’s The Invasion
Jordan Cronk on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, The Damned, Eephus, Universal Language
Bilge Ebiri on Kinds of Kindness, Oh Canada, Furiosa, plus Bertolucci
Jon Dieringer on The Apprentice, The Substance, Megalopolis Squared
Mark Asch on Anora, Horizon, Julie Keeps Quiet, Armand, It Doesn’t Matter
Jonathan Romney on Misericordia, Rumours, Being Maria, The Second Act, Parthenope
Eric Hynes on Caught by the Tides, Apprendre, Lino Brocka, Marco Bellocchio, Frederick Wiseman
Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Pérez, Motel Destino
Beatrice Loayza on September Says, Eat the Night, Visiting Hours
Justin Chang on All We Imagine as Light, Caught by the Tides, The Shrouds
Manohla Dargis on The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Anora, The Apprentice, Marcello Mio
Jessica Kiang on Black Dog, 2nd Features, The Other Way Around, Viet and Nam
Bios for My Esteemed Guests
Mark Asch wrote for Inside Hook during the festival. He is the author of Close-Ups: New York Movies.
Justin Chang is film critic for The New Yorker.
Jordan Cronk is founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and other publications.
Nick Davis is Associate Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, where he has been on the faculty since 2006. More of his film writing can be found at Nick-Davis.com.
Arnaud Desplechin’s latest movie, Filmlovers!, a cinephile documentary, premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. His previous movies include Kings & Queen, My Golden Days, A Christmas Tale, My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into an Argument.
Manohla Dargis is chief film critic of The New York Times.
Jon Dieringer is editor and publisher of Screen Slate.
Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection, among others.
Eric Hynes is curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image and a critic with bylines in Reverse Shot, The New York Times, Film Comment, and other publications.
Jessica Kiang is a critic for Variety, Sight & Sound, and other publications and has contributed festival reports to The New York Times.
Beatrice Loayza is a critic with frequent bylines in The New York Times and other publications.
Jonathan Romney is a critic who writes for Screen Daily during the festival. He also teaches at National Film and Television School.
Amy Taubin lives in New York City, where she writes about movies and art.
Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at The New York Times. Her book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and America’s Dream Machine is forthcoming from Liveright in early 2025.
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RECENT WRITING
I’ll make this brief since this newsletter’s already so packed… As part of Sight & Sound’s Cannes coverage, I reviewed The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the award-winning film from Iranian director Mohammad Rassoulof, who was forced to leave Iran after receiving a sentence of imprisonment and flogging.
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.