The Last Thing I Saw

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 Dorabialski, starring Mia Wasikowska). Plus a couple of short picks from each of us! Stay tuned for more from the Venice Film Festival.

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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 Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson; and A Woman Unknown, directed by May el-Toukhy.

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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 Loznitsa), and a highlight for Loayza at the time of recording, Basics of Philosophy (Paul Schrader).

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Ep. 418: Jordan Cronk on Venice 2026: Bucking Fastard, The Basics of Philosophy, My Undesirable Friends Part II Exile, Too Much Sugar

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The podcast returns to the Venice film festival in, you guessed it, Venice, Italy! I kick off this year’s edition with Jordan Cronk, critic and co-founder of Acropolis Cinema in Los Angeles. We discuss a few films from the first few days of the festival: Bucking Fastard (directed by Werner Herzog, starring Rooney and Kate Mara), My Undesirable Friends: Part II–Exile (Julia Loktev), The Basics of Philosophy (Paul Schrader), and Too Much Sugar (Robert Greene).

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Ep. 417: Mark Asch on No Picnic, Late Fame, Half-Cocked, Welcome II the Terrordome, Wet Hot American Summer, One Night Only

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This August I welcomed back Mark Asch for another summertime episode extravaganza. This time we talk about some of his recent viewing from the past—No Picnic (directed by Philip Hartman), Half-Cocked (Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky), and Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)—as well as a two recent releases, Late Fame (Kent Jones) and One Night Only (Will Gluck). We also discuss the newly restored 1994 film Welcome II the Terrordome, the Afrofuturist debut feature of Ngozi Onwurah.

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