Best Mr Maxwell Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 329 - Wemberly Worried 29:02

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All around the U.S. kids are beginning to go back to school. With that in mind, Kate asked Betsy to come up with a back-to-school book they hadn't done before. Now you might think that the only first day of school book the great Kevin Henkes created was Chrysanthemum (which we did back in 2021). Not so! Here we find another. Kate says the cover is …

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Ep. 261: Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells on The Strange Mr. Victor, Serpent’s Path, Parenthood 46:13

15m ago46:13

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Ep. 261: Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells on The Strange Mr. Victor, Serpent’s Path, Parenthood, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Nathan Silver’s latest movie Between the Temples comes to cinemas on August 23, with a cast lead by Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. So for this episode, Silver and his co-writer,…

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Episode 73 - Baby Bear Bicycle Bonanza 1:45:18

12d ago1:45:18

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Episode 73 - Baby Bear Bicycle Bonanza by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Episode 328 - The Color Kittens 29:49

3d ago29:49

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Our Margaret Wise Brown output on this podcast has, until now, been a bit on the scanty side. Sure, we did Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny but beyond that we've sort of left her out in the cold. All that changes today with this, our third MWB and what may be our very first Provensen deep dive. In light of the new life injected into Little Golden B…

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Ep. 260: Trap, Twisters, This Closeness, Janet Planet with Maxwell Paparella and Elissa Suh 1:00:45

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Ep. 260: Trap, Twisters, This Closeness, Janet Planet, Last Summer, and more with Maxwell Paparella and Elissa SuhWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. After a little summer vacation, it’s time once again to chat about some recent releases with two guests making their premieres on the podcast: Maxwell Paparella, an editor…

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Episode 327 - Abuela 29:13

8d ago29:13

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How the HECK have we done 327 episodes of this podcast and we haven't yet done this book? Released in 1991, we can't help but note that this story, of people flying above New York City, happened to come out the same year that a fellow people flying above New York City picture book came out: Tar Beach. Something about the early 90s just made people …

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Episode 72 - The Path Of The Pick Me 1:31:17

25d ago1:31:17

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Episode 72 - The Path Of The Pick Me by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Episode 326 - Tooth - Gnasher Superflash 29:38

14d ago29:38

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By gum, if there's one thing this children's literature podcast needs, it's more Reading Rainbow books from the days of yore. And if that's something we need to go out and find, then surely we will. We were inspired to give this particular book a go after Betsy saw the model of its vehicle on display at Kansas City's The Rabbit Hole. In this episod…

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Episode 325 - little blue and little yellow 30:50

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While Betsy often prefers to hand Kate children's picture books to consider that are chock full of details, at a certain point she is forced to come up with books that contain none of that. And you cannot get much more basic than Little Blue and Little Yellow here. Your heroes are essentially paint swatches, after all. In the course of our conversa…

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Episode 71 - But No Cigar 1:35:20

1M ago1:35:20

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Episode 71 - But No Cigar by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Ep. 259: K.J. Relth-Miller on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Sisters of Nishijin, Amadeus, Litvak, Innerview 1:00:28

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Ep. 259: K.J. Relth-Miller on Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024: Sisters of Nishijin, Amadeus, Anatole Livtak retro, The Innerview, The Sealed SoilWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual festival of revivals and restorations, showcases a bounty of discoveries, classics, and rarities in Bologna, Italy,…

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Episode 324 - Tomás and the Library Lady 30:23

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Kooky that we haven't done this one yet? You betcha. It's well known nationwide, been turned into lots of stage plays, and is generally a book that should be right up our alley. In the pantheon of heroic librarian books, where does this particular book fall out? We discuss the correct length of dinosaur teeth, sensible shoes, and how the HECK the a…

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Episode 323 - LIVE FROM ALA - Who's Got the Apple? 30:44

2M ago30:44

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The American Library Association's Annual Conference for 2024 may be over but here at Fuse 8 n' Kate the party NEVER stops! And we can back that statement up by pointing out that this latest episode was actually recorded AT the conference. And not only that, it was recorded WITH a special guest star! Turns out, conferences are a great way to connec…

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Ep. 258: Amy Taubin on Tribeca Picks, Agnieszka Holland, Bleak Week, Mireia Sallarès’s Little Deaths 49:23

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Ep. 258: Amy Taubin on Tribeca Picks, Agnieszka Holland, Bleak Week, Mireia Sallarès’s Little DeathsWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Why go through the summer without a return visit from the inimitable Amy Taubin? On this episode we discuss a few films cherry-picked from this year’s Tribeca Festival; Agnieszka Hollan…

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Episode 70 - The Proctology Episode 1:32:21

2M ago1:32:21

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Episode 70 - The Proctology Episode by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Episode 322 - Apple Pie Fourth of July 28:56

1M ago28:56

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We are pleased to announce that with its 2002 publication date we are finally able to celebrate the upcoming Independence Day with a book that Betsy has been sitting on for years. It can be exceedingly hard to find books for this particular holiday. Even better, this consideration of this book marks the very first time the podcast has ever done a J…

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Episode 321 - Baby, Come Out! 29:49

2M ago29:49

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Betsy's logic behind this week's choice is that it is hot outside right now, so why not do a picture book featuring nudity? Now we currently live in a country where so much as a bare butted goblin picture book can get banned by Moms for Liberty at the drop of a hat. May as well go all in and do a book that unapologetically doesn't care about such p…

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Episode 69 - (nice) Live Streamaganza 1:29:57

2M ago1:29:57

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Episode 69 - (nice) Live Streamaganza by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Ep. 257: The Nitrate Picture Show 2024 with David Schwartz: Minnelli, Wyler, Walsh, and more 42:48

2M ago42:48

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Ep. 257: The Nitrate Picture Show 2024 with David SchwartzWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Nitrate Picture Show takes place every year in Rochester, New York, at the George Eastman Museum, projecting movies from nitrate prints. The resulting super-vivid images create a movie-going experience that can be, in the w…

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Episode 320 - Mr. Maxwell's Mouse 31:26

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Kate's crie de coeur for more blood and guts in children's picture books once again finds its mark. Usually you might associate a book of this sort with titles of a more European bent, but Asch and son are 100% 'merican, baby. With enough weirdness to choke a cat, this one's just so very strange. Not to give anything away but we are exceedingly ple…

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Episode 68 - Phreaking Collect Calls 1:21:37

3M ago1:21:37

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Episode 68 - Phreaking Collect Calls by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Episode 319 - The Mysterious Tadpole 32:22

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Oh ho! We haven't done a Steven Kellogg re-illustration title since Pinkereton, Behave! back in 2021! This is particularly strange as The Mysterious Tadpole was always, without a doubt, a favorite Kellogg picture book of Betsy's when she was a child. For various reasons we were never able to discuss it on Fuse 8 n' Kate... until today! We consider …

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Ep. 256: Amy Taubin on Carax’s It’s Not Me, The Shrouds, Charles Atlas, Arthur Jafa, Man Ray, more 52:22

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Ep. 256: Amy Taubin on Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me, The Shrouds, Charles Atlas, Arthur Jafa, Man Ray, and MoreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The one and only Amy Taubin comes back to The Last Thing I Saw for a wide-ranging conversation about what she’s been watching. That includes at least a couple of Cannes titles—Le…

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Ep. 255: Cannes 2024: Jessica Kiang on Black Dog, 2nd Features, The Other Way Around, Viet and Nam 57:44

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Ep. 255: Cannes 2024 Redux: Jessica Kiang on Black Dog, 2nd Features, The Other Way Around, Viet and NamWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year at Cannes there are a few more films I want to talk about, even as the time is running out at the festival. So for a very special postscript (and postgame), critic Jessic…

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Episode 318 - Red-Eyed Tree Frog 41:25

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Here in Illinois the cicadas are truly beginning to emerge en masse. As such, Betsy was kind of hoping she might be able to find a book that speaks to this. Alas, Cicada Symphony by Sue Fleiss (illustrated by Gareth Lucas) is just barely a year old. So what's the next best course of action? Locate some other red-eyed creature found in trees, of cou…

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Ep. 254: Cannes 2024: Manohla Dargis on Seed of the Sacred Fig, Anora, The Apprentice, Marcello Mio 34:39

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Ep. 254: Cannes 2024 Finale: Manohla Dargis on The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Anora, The Apprentice, Marcello Mio, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s become an annual tradition on the last day of Cannes to sit down with Manohla Dargis, the chief film critic for The New York Times, and take stock of the festiv…

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Ep. 253: Cannes 2024: Justin Chang on All We Imagine as Light, Caught by the Tides, The Shrouds 38:08

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

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Ep. 252: Cannes 2024: Beatrice Loayza on September Says, Eat the Night, Visiting Hours 22:29

3M ago22:29

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

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Ep. 251: Cannes 2024: Nick Davis on Bird, Grand Tour, Emilia Perez, Motel Destino 37:13

3M ago37:13

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

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Ep. 250: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Caught by the Tides, Apprendre, Brocka, Bellocchio, Wiseman 26:00

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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 …

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Ep. 249: Cannes 2024: Romney on Misericordia, Rumours, Being Maria, The Second Act, Parthenope 43:16

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

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Ep. 248: Cannes 2024: Mark Asch on Anora, Horizon, Julie Keeps Quiet, Armand, It Doesn’t Matter 42:07

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

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Ep. 247: Cannes 2024: Jon Dieringer on The Apprentice, The Substance, Megalopolis Squared 41:30

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Ep. 247: Cannes 2024: Jon Dieringer on The Apprentice, The Substance, Megalopolis SquaredWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. On the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I’m joined by Jon Dieringer, editor and mastermind of Screen Slate, to cope with a couple of doozies in this year’s lineup. First up is The …

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Episode 67 - Ex - GI Becomes Blonde Beauty 1:24:36

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Episode 67 - Ex - GI Becomes Blonde Beauty by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Ep. 246: Cannes 2024: Bilge Ebiri on Kinds of Kindness, Oh Canada, Furiosa, plus Bertolucci 56:22

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Ep. 246: Cannes 2024: Bilge Ebiri on Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, Schrader’s Oh Canada, Furiosa, plus Bertolucci Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For the latest episode on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, I was happy to chat with Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine for his inaugural Cannes appearance on the podcast. We …

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Episode 317 - Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo 41:25

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As mentioned on this podcast episode, Kate and Betsy truly will be in San Diego at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference to record an episode WITH a special secret guest. Many thanks to the very kind Travis Jonker (alumni of Kate's college) for sharing his recording booth with us. Today's book was a Reading Rainbow book back in the day. We detect some…

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Ep. 245: Cannes 2024: Jordan Cronk on Christmas Eve in.., The Damned, Eephus, Universal Language 31:43

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Ep. 245: Cannes 2024: Jordan Cronk on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, The Damned, Eephus, Universal LanguageWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival marches on, and I sat down with critic and programmer Jordan Cronk to hear about some recent highlights from Directors’ Fortnight a…

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Ep. 244: Cannes 2024: Alissa Wilkinson on Furiosa, Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Ghost Trail, Loznitsa 34:15

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Ep. 244: Cannes 2024 with Alissa Wilkinson: Furiosa, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Invasion, Ghost Trail, Ernest Cole Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, and it’s easy to miss films in the scrum of first few days. So I spoke with Alissa Wilkinson of T…

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Ep. 243: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Megalopolis, plus Napoleon and The Girl With the Needle 26:35

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Ep. 243: Cannes 2024: Eric Hynes on Megalopolis, plus Napoleon and The Girl With the NeedleWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is officially underway, and no film was more highly anticipated than Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. To get the very latest, I connected with Eri…

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Ep. 242: Cannes 2024: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers! and recent favorites 20:31

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Ep. 242: Cannes 2024: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers! and recent favoritesWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opens this week, and for my 2024 series of Cannes episodes, I begin by talking with director Arnaud Desplechin about his new documentary that’s premiering at Cannes,…

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Episode 316 - The Three Pigs 30:46

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Today, we do our second David Wiesner book (after Tuesday). Along the way we discuss the philosophy behind Wiesner's void ("Is this just the space between the stories we tell?") and how this is (spoiler alert) our 200th classic on the podcast! Woohoo!Show Notes:For the full show notes please visit: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2024/05/13/fuse-8…

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Ep. 241: Kelly Reichardt on Alain Delon, Passionate Friends, Recreating Rear Window, and more 18:19

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Ep. 241: Kelly Reichardt on Alain Delon, David Lean's Passionate Friends, Recreating Rear Window, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With a retrospective of Kelly Reichardt’s work starting at Metrograph, I had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with Reichardt in one of the Metrograph theaters to talk about.…

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Episode 315 - Tops and Bottoms 28:42

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Today we dive right in to a good spring picture book that somehow we've never done before. Even better, a Caldecott Honor title at that! We haven't discussed Janet Stevens since we did Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock a little more than a year ago. Consider this the book that made vertical picture books cool (Mel Fell owes this title a hat tip of t…

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Ep. 240: Caroline Golum on Quebec-Core, Ghosts of Mars, Joanna Arnow Film, Borzage’s Man’s Castle 44:42

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Ep. 240: Caroline Golum on Quebec-Core, Ghosts of Mars, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Borzage’s Man’s CastleWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Filmmaker and self-described “rep rat” Caroline Golum returns to the podcast after far too long to discuss highlights from recent viewing! These incl…

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Ep. 239: Bertrand Bonello on The Beast, Experimenting with AI, Making Melodrama, Reading Henry James 21:46

4M ago21:46

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Ep. 239: Bertrand Bonello on The Beast, Experimenting with AI, Crafting Melodrama, Reading Henry James, and moreWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Bertrand Bonello’s latest film The Beast has been melting minds with its time-skipping saga of star-crossed lovers and strangers played by Léa Seydoux and George Mackay. Ins…

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Episode 66 - All Cops Are Bad Dates 1:29:58

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Episode 66 - All Cops Are Bad Dates by Mx. MaxwellBy Mx. Maxwell

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Episode 314 - Enemy Pie 30:50

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Recently LeVar Burton suggested today's picture book on an episode of The Sporkful ("Reheat: LeVar Burton Even Reads Recipes Dramatically") and in spite of the fact that Kate was dead-on about the fact that we should have done this book for a Thanksgiving episode, we're doing it, baby! Enemy Pie was a Reading Rainbow Book back in the day, how does …

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Ep. 238: Time director Garrett Bradley on instincts, Devotion, America, and Satyajit Ray’s Devi 24:27

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Ep. 238: Time director Garrett Bradley on instincts, Devotion, America, and Satyajit Ray’s DeviWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Garrett Bradley is the director of Time, the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary about Sibil Fox Richardson and her efforts to get her husband released from prison. Bradley has directed several…

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Episode 313 - Ginger Bear 30:33

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"Crime and murder!"Do you want unspeakable violence on the picture book page? Well, folks, Kate sure did. And thanks to the suggestion of listener Rachelle, and her daughter Sarah, Betsy finally had a book that would give her just what she required. Is there blood? There is not, though honestly she got her fill of blood when we talked about King St…