The Last Thing I Saw

Ep. 406: Manohla Dargis on Cannes 2026

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival drew to a close, I was fortunate again to sit down with Manohla Dargis, chief film critic of The New York Times, for our annual Cannes finale. The films discussed included titles that hadn’t been addressed yet on the podcast, as well as some that had. Throughout, Dargis shares her thoughts on this year’s edition of the festival in a historical context. Please note that the episode was recorded before the awards ceremony.

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Ep. 405: Justin Chang on Cannes 2026: All of a Sudden, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Coward, Fjord Redux

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I sat down with Justin Chang of The New Yorker for a chat about a few films we had missed to talk about. Among the titles discussed are All of a Sudden (directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Coward (Lukas Dhont), and Fjord (Cristian Mungiu), which at the time of recording had not yet won the Palme d’Or.

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Ep. 404: Jessica Kiang on Cannes 2026: Sheep in the Box, The Dreamed Adventure, Too Many Beasts, The Unknown, La Perra, Colony

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I sat down with Jessica Kiang of Variety and the Berlinale for our customary epic pod by the light of French Riviera sun. Among the films discussed were Sheep in the Box (directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda), The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach), Too Many Beasts (Sarah Arnold), The Unknown (Arthur Harari), La Perra (Dominga Sotomayor), and Colony (Yeon Sang-ho), plus a final word on her levitatingly good absolute favorite of the festival.

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Ep. 403: Nick Davis on Cannes 2026: The Dreamed Adventure, Red Rocks, A Man of His Time, Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building, Flesh and Fuel

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I joyfully reunited with Nick Davis, a professor in the Department of English at Northwestern, an associate programmer with the Chicago International Film Festival, and longtime critical colleague. Among the films discussed at a late but alert hour: The Dreamed Adventure (directed by Valeska Grisebach), Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont), A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre), Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building (Bruno Santamaría Razo), and Flesh and Fuel (Pierre Le Gall).

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Ep. 402: Keva York on Cannes 2026: The Unknown, Everytime, Libertad Doble

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival I chatted with Keva York, a past guest on the podcast who was filing pieces from Cannes for Filmmaker and n+1 magazine. We discussed a few differently entrancing films from this year’s edition: The Unknown (directed by Arthur Harari, starring Léa Seydoux), Everytime (Sandra Wollner), and Libertad Doble (Lisandro Alonso).

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