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Ep. 253: Cannes 2024: Justin Chang on All We Imagine as Light, Caught by the Tides, The Shrouds

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest selection of highlights recorded during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I was delighted to sit down with Justin Chang of The New Yorker, recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, with whom I’d last chatted when he was at the Los Angeles Times. On this episode, occasionally to the soundtrack of Cannes doves cooing nearby, we talked about All We Imagine as Light (directed by Payal Kapadia), Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke), and The Shrouds (David Cronenberg). We also chatted about the festival’s ebb and flow, and the awards prospects at the time of recording.

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Ep. 252: Cannes 2024: Beatrice Loayza on Visiting Hours, Eat the Night, and September Says

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I sat down with critic Beatrice Loayza to discuss some of the lesser-spoken-about titles from the festival. That includes two titles from Directors’ Fortnight: Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours, starring Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi, and Eat the Night from Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. We also chat about the feature-length directorial debut from Ariane Labed, September Says, adapted from the novel by Daisy Johnson and featured in the Un Certain Regard section.

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Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel Destino

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode chock full of highlights from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I welcome a dear old friend, Nick Davis, a professor of film at Northwestern University and writer/editor of his own outstanding longtime site of film criticism (nick-davis.com). On his inaugural visit to Cannes, he shared his typically quicksilver thoughts on a slate of boldly imagined movies: Bird (directed by Andrea Arnold), Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard), Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes), and Motel Destino (Karim Ainouz).

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Ep. 250: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Caught by the Tides, Apprendre, Cannes Classics (Brocka, Bellocchio, Insta-Wiseman)

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I bring back Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, to discuss two essential highlights of this year’s edition—Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides and Claire Simon’s Apprendre—and restorations from Cannes Classics: Lino Brocka’s Bona, Marco Bellocchio’s Slap the Monster on Page One, and Frederick Wiseman’s Law and Order.

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Ep. 249: Cannes 2024: Jonathan Romney on Misericordia, Rumours, Being Maria, The Second Act, Parthenope

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I chatted with critic Jonathan Romney and caught up with a number of movies in this year’s edition: Misericordia (directed by Alain Guiraudie), The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), Being Maria (Jessica Palud), Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino), and Rumours (Guy Maddin and Evan & Galen Johnson), plus his verdict on the inescapable Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola).

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Ep. 248: Cannes 2024: Mark Asch on Anora, Horizon, Julie Keeps Quiet, Armand, It Doesn’t Matter

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I sat down with Mark Asch, critic and pod vivant, to talk about several highlights, each from a different section or showcase at Cannes. We discuss the highly acclaimed Anora (directed by Sean Baker, in Competition), Armand (Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, from Un Certain Regard), Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo van Dijl, in Critics’ Week), Horizon (Kevin Costner, out of Competition), and It Doesn’t Matter (Josh Mond, in ACID). Mark also describes how he starts his day in this French coastal town.

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