The Last Thing I Saw

Ep. 398: Chloe Lizotte on Cannes 2026: Minotaur, Fjord, Full Phil and Tim Heidecker, Hope

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival underway, I was delighted to sit down with Chloe Lizotte, Filmmaker Magazine’s Content Director. Among the latest premieres discussed were, oddly enough, a succession of mostly one-word titles: Minotaur (directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev), Fjord (Cristian Mungiu), Full Phil (Quentin Dupieux), and Hope (Na Hong-jin).

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Ep. 397: Mark Asch on Cannes 2026: Diary of a Chambermaid, Moulin, ACID Highlights including Detention, Gabin

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in full effect, I sat down for a chat with series regular Mark Asch, who is filing from Cannes for a number of publications. The films discussed include: Diary of a Chambermaid (directed by Radu Jude), Moulin (Laszlo Nemes), Gabin (Maxence Voiseux), and highlights from the ACID independent program including Detention (Guillaume Massart), Lying Twice, Dying Thrice (Karim Lakzadeh), and Into the Jaws of the Ogre (Mahsa Karampour).

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Ep. 396: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Club Kid, The Beloved (El Ser Querido), Clarissa, Propeller One-Way Night Coach

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in full effect, I sat down again with Eric Hynes, critic and director of film curation and programming at the Jacob Burns Film Center. First we discussed two very different Competition titles about parent-child entanglements: Club Kid (directed, written by, and starring Jordan Firstman) and The Beloved (aka El Ser Querido, directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo). Then we exchanged films that only one of us had seen: Clarissa, from Directors’ Fortnight, a Mrs. Dalloway adaptation directed by Arie & Chuko Esiri; and then John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach. Subscribe/follow for more on the latest movies premiering at Cannes!

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Ep. 395: Jonathan Romney on Cannes 2026: All of a Sudden (Soudain), Gentle Monster, John Lennon the Last Interview

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and I sat down with regular guest Jonathan Romney, who is filing as usual for Screen Daily. We couldn’t resist exchanging first (and differing) impressions of a few freshly premiered films: the much-anticipated new feature from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, All of a Sudden, plus the harrowing Gentle Monster from the director of Corsage, Marie Kreutzer, and finally the inventive new documentary John Lennon: The Last Interview from Steven Soderbergh, using an interview recorded just hours before Lennon’s assassination.

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Ep. 394: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Fatherland, Parallel Tales, In Waves, The Match

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and I was delighted to sit down with Eric Hynes, critic and director of film curation and programming at the Jacob Burns Film Center. We discussed a few titles from the first days of the festival: Fatherland (directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, starring Sandra Hüller and Hans Zischler), Parallel Tales (Asghar Farhadi, starring Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Adam Bessa), In Waves (Phuong Mai Nguyen), and the 1986 World Cup documentary The Match (Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco). Subscribe for more to keep up with the latest premieres from Cannes!

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