The Last Thing I Saw
Critic Nicolas Rapold talks with guests about the movies they've been watching. From home viewing to the latest from festivals and retrospectives. Named one of the 10 Best Film Podcasts by Sight & Sound magazine. Guests include critics, curators, and filmmakers.
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Ep. 423: Jessica Kiang on Venice 2026: Bunker, Possible Love, Queer Edward II, Mr. Nelson Did You Kill People, Oasis (opens the original)
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Ep. 423: Jessica Kiang on Venice 2026: Bunker, Possible Love, Queer Edward II, Mr. Nelson Did You Kill People, Oasis Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the 2026 edition of the Venice Film Festival winds down, I was delighted to sit down with Jessica Kiang of Variety to talk about a few more selections. Among the films discussed are Bunker (directed by Florian Zeller, starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem), Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong), Mr. Nelson Did You Kil
Ep. 422: Jonathan Romney on Venice 2026: Dau, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolucci by Guadagnino, Musk, and Naza (opens the original)
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Ep. 422: Jonathan Romney on Venice 2026: Dau, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolucci by Guadagnino, Musk, plus Naza Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined on the Lido by Jonathan Romney, who writes criticism at Screen Daily and the Observer. Among the films discussed are Dau (directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky), Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás), Joie de Vivre (aka the Bernardo Ber
Ep. 421: Guy Lodge on Venice 2026: The Spiral, A Place to Heal, Boatbuilders, Agata the Writer (opens the original)
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Ep. 421: Guy Lodge on The Spiral, A Place to Heal, Boatbuilders, Agata the Writer Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined on the Lido by Guy Lodge of Variety. Among the films discussed are The Spiral (directed by Paolo Strippoli, featuring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), A Place to Heal (Cedric Kahn), Boatbuilders (Luke Lorentzen), and from the Venice Days showcase, Agata the Writer (Kuba Dor
Ep. 420: Tim Grierson on Venice 2026: Possible Love, Primetime, and A Woman Unknown (opens the original)
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Ep. 420: Tim Grierson on Possible Love, Primetime, and A Woman Unknown Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined by Tim Grierson of Screen Daily, also a regular contributor to several other publications. Among the Venice world premieres discussed are three Competition titles: Possible Love, the much-anticipated return by director Lee Chang-dong; Primetime, the fiction feature debut from
Ep. 419: Beatrice Loayza on Venice 2026: Ink, Wild Horse Nine, Imperium, More Basics of Philosophy (opens the original)
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Ep. 419: Ink, Wild Horse Nine, Imperium, More Basics of Philosophy Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns with more from the 2026 Venice Film Festival! This time I’m joined by Beatrice Loayza, a regular contributor to The New York Times and other publications. Among the Venice world premieres discussed are the opening film Ink (directed by Danny Boyle, starring Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell), Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh), Imperium (Sergei Loznit
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