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Nicolas Rapold

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Nicolas Rapold@nicolasrapold.bsky.social · 4w ago

New episode of THE LAST THING I SAW! Wonderful to chat with @alissawilkinson.bsky.social about the Jackass series, The Odyssey (da movie), essay film maestro Ross McElwee’s Remake and Sherman’s March, and some other recent viewing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep. 414: Alissa Wilkinson on Jackass, The Odyssey, Ross McElwee’s Remake and Sherman’s March, Recent Viewing

Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · July 25 · 50m

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Sight and Sound magazine@sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Virginie Efira and Okamoto Tao jointly won the Best Actress award at #Cannes2026 for their performances in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s All of a Sudden. Read @nicolasrapold.bsky.social’s review of the film here. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

All of a Sudden review: a radically tender drama

Hamaguchi’s touching portrayal of friendship and communion between a care home director and a playwright with a terminal illness allows the director to investigate the possibility of change in a capit...

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Jessica Kiang@jessicakiang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A huge pleasure to talk through the Cannes that was on the last day with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social Feat: Bulgaria, whiteboards, dogs, managing to make a body-swap boring, a very bad Japanese film, pigs, a truly great Japanese film, zombies. Not in that order. open.spotify.com/episode/0HGX...

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

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Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
Sight and Sound magazine@sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“It’s been a full 17 years since Mary Bronstein’s crackling debut feature, and the long wait has filtered into the simmering anxieties and ambient aggression of her full-on follow-up” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review

Seventeen years on from her mumblecore debut Yeast (2008), Bronstein returns with an anxiety-inducing exploration of motherhood, starring Rose Byrne as an overwhelmed therapist with a suspicious hole ...

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision

The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy...

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Dee Chan@deechan17.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good

A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

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