The Complete Sundance 2025 Collection + David Lynch
Great minds on great movies (also not-so-great movies) + Remembering David Lynch
Dear Last Thing I Sawfolk,
The latest dispatch brings together all the episodes from my podcast coverage of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Lots of movies you’ll be hearing more about, so drop on in with any one of these discussions—it’s an all-star lineup of guests!
I’ve added my interview with Steven Soderbergh about his haunting first-person thriller Presence, which opened almost a year to the day after its Sundance premiere. I’m also including a terrific episode with Mark Asch about the late, lamented David Lynch, and belatedly, the Lynch obituary I filed on the day.
That’s all for now. Now more than ever, many thanks to all the supporters of The Last Thing I Saw!
Nic
THE PODCAST
(Note: I don’t know if I’d said this before but you can play by clicking on each episode title, or clicking on each little player graphic, or going to Spotify or wherever else.)
Steven Soderbergh on Presence, shooting in the first-person, and recent viewing
Manohla Dargis on Sundance 2025: Sorry Baby, Atropia, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Omaha, The Ugly Stepsister, Rebuilding
Amy Taubin on Sundance 2025: BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions, Ricky, Sorry Baby, The Things You Kill, The Alabama Solution
Bilge Ebiri on Sundance 2025: Peter Hujar’s Day, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sly Lives, more
Alissa Wilkinson on Sundance 2025: Predators, Zodiac Killer Project, Life After, Middletown
Eric Hynes on Sundance 2025: Mad Bills to Pay, The Perfect Neighbor, Rebuilding, Seeds
Chloe Lizotte on 4DX Cinema and Sundance 2025: OBEX, Endless Cookie, Luz, The Reality of Hope
Eric Hynes on Sundance 2025: Preview and 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Mark Asch on David Lynch (RIP), Best of Spectacle, Wicked, La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Episodes of The Last Thing I Saw are also available at Spotify and many other platforms and podcast places.
RECENT WORK
I wrote an obituary of David Lynch for The Financial Times on the day of the public announcement. I hope it’s a respectful send-off for a filmmaker who was formative for me, as for so many.
Also for FT, I filed reports (one and two) on Sundance, covering a range of films, including a few that ended up getting picked up.
Sundance isn’t always the greatest place to do a thorough interview but I couldn’t resist sitting down with the directors of one of my favorites, Endless Cookie, for Filmmaker magazine: Pete and Seth Scriver.
I wrote a few reviews for Sight & Sound and here’s the one for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
THIS CRITIC’S PICKS
Mountains (MUBI) A sweetly moving drama of generations in Little Haiti, Miami—my favorite part being the parents
Here (Netflix) A century or so in an American house from a fixed shot – I don’t care if you think it’s hokey, it has to be seen to be believed and can be touching almost in spite of itself
Mulholland Dr. (Criterion) How could I not
Close Your Eyes (MUBI) from the director of Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice
It’s My Turn (Criterion) Claudia Weill directs Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin in a possibly dated relationship film that nonetheless gets something about rhythms
THE END
Here I may end with a song.
ABOUT ME
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw! I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. You can get in touch re: writing, editing, programming, moderating, podcasting, etc. 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 Financial 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 film series and one-offs I’ve programmed, revivals and premieres, so do drop me a line if you’d like to collaborate.
Editorially 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.
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