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The Film Comment PodcastCannes 2025 #8, with Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Abby SunCannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and many more.
For our fifth episode from the French Riviera, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish is joined by critics Abby Sun, Beatrice Loayza, and Giovanni Marchini Camia to discuss some late-festival premieres, including Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Carla Simón's Romería, Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound and...2025-05-2355 min
The Film Comment PodcastCannes 2025 #3, with Mark Asch and Beatrice LoayzaCannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and many more.
For our third episode from the sunny shores of southern France, Film Comment contributors Mark Asch and Beatrice Loayza join Editor Devika Girish to unpack two of the most go-for-broke selections to screen so far—Oliver Laxe's Sirât (2:25) and Ari Aster's Eddington (21:20)—before tu...2025-05-1750 min
The Last Thing I SawEp. 283: Beatrice Loayza and Adam Nayman Do Their Bests (2024 Edition)Ep. 283: Beatrice Loayza and Adam Nayman Do Their Bests (2024 Edition)
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Tis season of making lists and checking them twice, and this December, I was pleased to welcome back Beatrice Loayza (of The New York Times and other publications) and Adam Nayman (of The Ringer and elsewhere) to the podcast. Loayza and Nayman share a few outstanding films that stuck with them from 2024, plus an assortment of other high points from their lists, ranging from debut features to crowning works by auteurs in their prime. I won’t spoil th...2024-12-2254 min
A Very Good Year1950s highlight show!After 2 years and 100 episodes we're retiring A Very Good Year and coming back in 2025 with a whole new show. In the meantime we're looking back at some of our favorite guests and favorite movies, by decade.In this episode we're looking at a decade that some people consider a dead zone: the 1950s. As you'll hear it was a great decade for movies. Ever heard of a guy named Hitchcock? I rest my case.Featuring the talents of Sheila O'Malley, Glenn Kenny, James Urbaniak, Beatrice Loayza, Aisha Harris, and one of the best...2024-12-1552 min
The Film Comment PodcastHoliday New Releases, with Robert Daniels and Beatrice LoayzaSleepily emerging from the turkey-induced haze of Thanksgiving break and looking ahead to the barrage of Best of 2024 lists, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited critics Robert Daniels and Beatrice Loayza to discuss some of the most highly-anticipated Hollywood blockbusters (and would-be blockbusters) of this year’s holiday season. The group convened to offer their thoughts on Steve McQueen’s Blitz (3:25), Edward Berger’s Conclave (17:00), Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II (31:56), Halina Reijn’s Babygirl (43:55), and Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 (55:53).2024-12-031h 08
Das AftermathUnterwegs in Sarajevo, dem Jerusalem EuropasHunderte Filme aus der ganzen Welt, ausgebuchte Kinosäle und eine feierliche Stimmung im Herzen der Stadt - das Sarajevo Filmfestival feierte heuer im August seine 30. Ausgabe.Das runde Jubiläum trug aber nicht wirklich zu einem ausgewogenen Programm bei - was uns vor allem beim Schwerpunkt "Dealing with the past" stark aufgefallen ist. Darüber und über ein verändertes Stadtbild Sarajevos sprechen wir in der aktuellen Episode.Wir haben diesmal auch einen Gast. Tuvia kommt aus Sarajevo und wohnt seit einigen Jahren in Wien. Er erzählt über die jüdische Geschichte von Sara...2024-10-141h 05A Very Good Year1958 with Beatrice LoayzaFilm critic, editor, and intrepid festival traveler Beatrice Loayza joins us for another probing look into the oft-dismissed 1950s—this time 1958, as we look at a Hitchcock classic (“Vertigo”), a pre-New Wave banger (“Elevator to the Gallows”), a hard-hitting social drama (“The Defiant Ones”), and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-10-061h 12The Film Comment PodcastToronto 2024 #3, with Adam Nayman and Beatrice LoayzaThis week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including premieres of new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea Kulumbegashvili, and more.
For our third Podcast from the home of David Cronenberg, Drake, and the great Tim Hortons, Film Comment editor Devika Girish welcomes critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza to discuss some of the most anticipated films of this year’s festival. Kicking things off...2024-09-1143 minThe Last Thing I SawEp. 252: Cannes 2024: Beatrice Loayza on September Says, Eat the Night, Visiting HoursEp. 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 D...2024-05-2822 minThe Film Comment PodcastCannes 2024 #8, with Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin QuinlanCannes 2024 is in full swing—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.
On our latest episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, critics Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to dig into their recent festival viewing, including Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour (3:15), Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia (19:50), Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown (34:48), and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope (45:55).
Subscribe today to the Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of C...2024-05-2451 minThe Film Comment PodcastCannes 2024 #1, with Beatrice Loayza and Isabel StevensCannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.
To kick things off, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish sat down with our contributor Beatrice Loayza (stay tuned for her dispatch next week) and Sight and Sound’s Isabel Stevens. The three critics debated their differing reactions to the festival’s opening night selection, Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (3:27), as well as Sophie Fillières’ This Life of Mine (15:36), Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond (20:53), and Abel Gance’s...2024-05-1643 minThe Film Comment PodcastBerlinale 2024 #6, with Jordan Cronk, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Beatrice LoayzaThe 2024 Berlinale wrapped up on Sunday, February 25, after a fortnight of buzzy premieres and fraught political controversies. The Film Comment crew was on the ground throughout the festival, reporting on each day’s goings-on via daily Podcasts, dispatches, interviews and more. On the final Friday of the festival, FC Editor Devika Girish gathered critics Jordan Cronk, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Beatrice Loayza to discuss a last haul of films from the lineup—including Encounters prizewinner Direct Action, Generation 14plus prizewinner Who By Fire, Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton, Kazik Radwanski’s Matt & Mara, Christine Angot’s A Family, and Travis Wilkerson’s Through the G...2024-02-2750 minThe Film Comment PodcastBerlinale 2024 #2, with Erika Balsom, Beatrice Loayza, and Giovanni Marchini CamiaThis week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to the Film Comment Letter here to stay up-to-date.
On today’s episode, our second from Berlin, FC Editor Devika Girish is joined by critics Erika Balsom, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Beatrice Loayza to talk about the political situation in Germany and how it’s affecting the festival, before di...2024-02-1950 min
The Film Comment PodcastIFFR 2024, with Beatrice Loayza and Jordan CronkLast week, FC Editor Devika Girish attended the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)—a Dutch festival that, since its inception in 1972, has become known for showcasing independent and experimental cinema by both emerging and established filmmakers. This year was no exception, with a lineup that spanned feature debuts like The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire by Madeleine Hunt-Erlich; wacky American indies like Dream Team; Mario, a new documentary by L.A. Rebellion luminary Billy Woodberry; as well as a robust shorts selection, including Frank Sweeney's Few Can See and Valentin Noujaïm's To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion.
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Ar...2024-01-311h 03The Last Thing I SawEp. 216: Beatrice Loayza and Adam Nayman on May December, Zone of Interest, Knock at the Cabin, moreEp. 216: Beatrice Loayza and Adam Nayman on May December, Zone of Interest, Knock at the Cabin, Fallen Leaves, and more
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw with your host, Nicolas Rapold! As we approach the end of the year, I bring together a wonderful pair of critics who have appeared together here before: Adam Nayman (The Ringer) and Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times). In the spirit of the season, I asked them about their favorite movies of 2023, from Todd Haynes’s May December to M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin and Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves, and we...2023-12-1856 min
Mental Health is HorrifyingThe Ring — Grief is a well you’ve been thrown downSo — have you heard about this tape? Let’s talk about The Ring (2002) and its portrayal of grief, nature vs nurture, and the psycho-therapeutic theory of emotional dwelling.There are many readings of what the metaphors in this movie are really about. And for a lot of people this movie is about technology — viral media and misinformation, technology as a virus, technophobia etc etc — but for me, this movie is so much about grief! Like — it just is! Miscarriages! Murder! Hauntings! Girls in wells! Grief.Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, own...2023-09-2736 minThe Last Thing I SawEp. 205: Toronto 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: The Teachers’ Lounge, Memory, Arthur & Diana, WavelengthEp. 205: Toronto 2023 with Beatrice Loayza: The Teachers’ Lounge, Arthur & Diana, Wavelengths shorts, Memory
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the fall season kicks off, I’m catching up with some intriguing titles seen at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 that you might not have heard much about yet. I chatted with critic Beatrice Loayza about a few titles: Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, Michel Franco’s Memory starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, Sara Summa’s Arthur & Diana, and shorts from TIFF's Wavelengths section.
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Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m reporting from the Locarno film festival. Beatrice Loayza, who’s attending the festival for the first time, joins the podcast to discuss a few highlights, including: Quentin Dupieux’s Yannick, Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia, Éléonore Saintagnan’s Camping du Lac, and Dani Rosenberg’s The Vanishing Soldier.
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Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtes...2023-08-1117 minThe Last Thing I SawEp. 177: Cannes #5 with Beatrice Loayza on Anatomy of a Fall, Delinquents, Killers of the Flower...Ep. 177: Cannes #6 with Beatrice Loayza on Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, The Delinquents, Killers of the Flower Moon Redux
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 2023 Cannes film festival series continues, live from Cannes! This episode I talk with critic Beatrice Loayza who writes for The New York Times, Film Comment, and other publications. We discuss some Cannes premieres, including Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, from another perspective. Stay tuned for more episodes with a delightful array of b...2023-05-2521 minThe Film Comment PodcastCannes 2023 #2, with Beatrice Loayza, Inney Prakash, and James WhamCannes 2023 is here—and as news of standing ovations and walkouts, throwaway raves and pans, spit takes and hot takes flood the feed, we’ll be reporting on all the cinematic goings-on, with our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.
For our second episode from the Riviera, critics Beatrice Loayza and James Wham and programmer and critic Inney Prakash join FC co-deputy editor Devika Girish discuss some recently screened high-, low-, and in-between–lights, including Sean Price Williams’s The Sweet East, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Wim...2023-05-1953 minThe Last Thing I SawEp. 171: Beatrice Loayza on Erotic Thrillers + Dry Ground Burning + a NDNF pickEp. 171: Beatrice Loayza on Erotic Thrillers + Dry Ground Burning + a NDNF pick
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with critic Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times, Cinema Scope) about erotic thrillers—the subject of a new series of films on the Criterion Channel. Loayza wrote an article thinking through the genre, and we discuss the titles available for streaming now from the 1980s and 90s: Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion, John Dahl’s The Last Seduction, Nicholas Kazan’s Dream Lover, and Sollace Mitchell’s New York–set Call Me, among...2023-04-2443 min
The Film Comment PodcastNew Directors/New Films 2023, with Beatrice Loayza and Vadim RizovEvery spring the New Directors/New Films festival at Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA puts on an exciting showcase of movies by the best emerging filmmakers around the world. It’s always a reliable sign of the trends to come and the talents to look out for—past editions have featured early films by Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Kelly Reichardt, and others.
Over the past few years, Film Comment has established our own annual tradition of previewing the best movies in the New Directors/New Films lineup with local critics. This time around, editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute were...2023-03-281h 12The Last Thing I SawEp. 151: Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza on Eternal Daughter, Genre, Recent ListingEp. 151: Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza on Eternal Daughter, Genre, Recent Listing
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m Nicolas Rapold. It’s been about a year since I was last joined by critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza, so it felt like high time to get the band (i.e., the two of them) back together. We discussed some recent viewing which inevitably meant talking about the Greatest poll we had all participated in, as they share some of the criteria behind their ballots.
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The Film Comment PodcastToronto 2022 #4, with Adam Nayman, Vadim Rizov, and Beatrice LoayzaAs we head into the last weekend of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish welcomes Adam Nayman (critic and certified Toronto native), Vadim Rizov (director of operations at Filmmaker Magazine), and Beatrice Loayza (associate web editor at the Criterion Collection) to talk about some of the major titles from this year's lineup, including The Fabelmans, Dry Ground Burning, Women Talking, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Whale, and the Bulgari ad directed by Paolo Sorrentino that plays before every TIFF screening.2022-09-161h 01The Film Comment PodcastToronto 2022 #2, with Chloe Lizotte, Cristina Nord, and Beatrice LoayzaWe’re reporting this week from one of the major film events of the fall: the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 8 to 18. Throughout this year’s screening, we’ll be on the ground, covering all the highlights (and lowlights) from the lineup with a rotating crew of critics and special guests.
For our second dispatch from the Tim Horton–studded mean streets of Toronto, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish welcomes Cristina Nord (head of the Berlinale Forum), Chloe Lizotte (editorial manager at MUBI Notebook), and Beatrice Loayza (associate web editor at the Criterion Collection) to talk about so...2022-09-1447 min
The Film Comment PodcastIrma Vep and The Rehearsal, with Adam Nayman and Beatrice LoayzaThis week's podcast initially began as a sequel to our episode about Irma Vep from a few weeks ago, in which Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza joined us to discuss Olivier Assayas's new HBO series. We had only seen four episodes at the time, and we wanted to reconvene our guests, now that the miniseries has finished its run of eight episodes. But as we dug into the film-within-a-film rabbit holes of Irma Vep, its commentaries on auteurism and autofiction, and how it blurs the lines between reality, narrative, and fantasy, we realized that it echoed the themes of another s...2022-08-0459 min
The Celluloid MirrorHe's an Attractive Man (Annette and Little Murders)Elliott Gould plays an “apathist” photographer and Adam Driver a confrontational comedian who take center stage - with varying degrees of enthusiasm -- as we discus Alan Arkin’s early ‘70s satire Little Murders and Leos Carax’s 2021 musical extravaganza Annette.
“ so much of a piece, so consistent on its own terms, that while you're watching it, it doesn't even feel like satire: just real life, a little farther down the road.”
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What does a bleak adaption of a late 60s stage satire about the prevalence of violence in modern US American life...2022-06-292h 05The Film Comment PodcastOlivier Assayas's Irma Vep with Adam Nayman and Beatrice LoayzaTwo episodes in, Olivier Assayas’s new, mind-bendingly metatextual HBO series, Irma Vep, has already proven to be catnip for cinephiles. An audacious expansion and reinvention of Assayas's 1996 film of the same title—in which an aging French filmmaker attempts to remake Louis Feuillade’s classic silent serial, Les vampires, with Maggie Cheung as the criminal vamp Irma Vep—the eight-part series features a nearly dizzying mise-en-abyme structure. Here, a neurotic filmmaker (seemingly modeled on Assayas) recreates Feuillade’s serial for a contemporary, binge-TV audience. Alicia Vikander plays Mira Harberg, an American pop heroine who is cast as Irma Vep among a glo...2022-06-141h 07The Last Thing I SawEpisode 97: Sundance 2022 #4 with Beatrice Loayza (Dos Estaciones, Speak No Evil, jeen-yuhs)Episode 97: Sundance 2022 #4 with Beatrice Loayza (Dos Estaciones, Speak No Evil, Brainwashed, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy)
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Sundance Film Festival is here, there, and everywhere this year, screening in a virtual edition. For this episode, I chat with Beatrice Loayza, a New York Times contributor and an editor at the Criterion Collection, about her recent Sundance selections, her favorites and her not-so-favorites. We talk about Juan Pablo González’s Dos Estaciones, Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil, Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed, and jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, from Clarence...2022-01-2738 minThe Film Comment PodcastThe Best Films of 2021Drumroll, please! Film Comment’s highly anticipated Best Films of 2021 list, voted on by nearly a 100 critics and colleagues the world over, is finally out. Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish unveiled the results live at a special Film Comment Talk, featuring hearty discussion and debate with all-star panelists Bilge Ebiri (film critic, Vulture and New York magazine), Edo Choi (assistant curator of film, Museum of the Moving Image), and Beatrice Loayza (associate web editor, the Criterion Collection).
Read the full Best of 2021 lists (including newly commissioned writing from a host of critics!), including best undistributed films and individual ballots fro...2021-12-172h 09The Last Thing I SawEpisode 68: Newish Releases with Adam Nayman and Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Before the onslaught of new fall releases, I thought it’d be nice to tackle three big summer titles. We start with Annette, the long-awaited new feature from Leos Carax starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard; The Green Knight, David Lowery’s medieval fantasy with Dev Patel; and last but definitely not least, the mind-bender Old, from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan. Joining the podcast for the first time is Adam Nayman, a contributing editor at Cinema Scope whose work is published in The Ringer and Sight & Soun...2021-08-281h 08The Last Thing I SawEpisode 49: In the Heights, Inside, The Driver, Tribeca, Amusement Park with Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I was happy to chat again with the critic Beatrice Loayza, whom you might know from her reviews in The New York Times and essays in Reverse Shot and other publications. We caught up with In the Heights and another sort of musical movie, Bo Burnham’s Inside. And since we hadn’t seen Fast 9 yet, I picked a replacement and talked about that instead: Walter Hill’s The Driver, with Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, and Isabelle Adjani. Beatrice also talks about the rediscovered George Romero m...2021-06-2854 minThe Last Thing I SawEpisode 41: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Dirk Bogarde, and Godzilla Thoughts with Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week the conversation starts with R.W. Fassbinder's serial drama Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day. My guest is a regular on the show, critic Beatrice Loayza (The New York Times, Reverse Shot, A.V. Club). Beatrice’s viewing leads us to two dramas with British star Dirk Bogarde and two comedies by the great Albert Brooks. We also take the measure of studio blockbuster filmmaking from recent months, including Godzilla vs. Kong and Nobody.
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...2021-04-2655 minThe Last Thing I SawEpisode 29: New Releases (Judas, The Father, more) with Beatrice Loayza and Nicholas RussellWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. We’re talking about new (or new-ish) releases this week, including Judas and the Black Messiah, The Father, I Care a Lot, and Saint Maud. Joining me for this episode are a supergroup of two regulars: critics Beatrice Loayza and Nicholas Russell.
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The Cinematologists PodcastSex and the Cinema (w/Film Critic Beatrice Loayza)
In this episode, we take on the thorny issue of sex and cinema but thankfully we had the extremely insightful film critic Beatrice Loayza to help is navigate the many strands of this subject. Beatrice has bylines in Sight & Sound, LA review of Book, Reverse Shot and Mubi notebook, but it was her recent piece in the Guardian - Some sex scenes are gratuitous, but a good one can electrify a film - that was the trigger for this conversation. Dario and Beatrice discuss the polarised debate around how sex scenes should be deployed, i.e. in...2021-02-261h 18The Last Thing I SawEpisode 24: Sundance #3 with Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. On this episode about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, I’m joined by critic Beatrice Loayza, a frequent guest on the show. Among the movies we discuss are Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, 1980s throwback Censor, A Glitch in the Matrix (from the director of Room 237), and Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta.
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Photo by Steve Snodgrass2021-02-0240 minThe Last Thing I SawEpisode 20: The Best of 2020 with Amy Taubin, Eric Hynes, Jessica Kiang, and Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This is the 20th episode of the podcast, and we’ll be sharing our highlights from the year in movies. You might notice a few likely candidates are missing, such as First Cow or Time, but that’s because we tried to talk about movies that haven't been covered as much on this podcast, though a few old favorites do sneak in. It’s been a long year so I got some brilliant critics to share their picks: Amy Taubin, contributing editor at Artforum; Eric Hynes, curator of film a...2020-12-311h 21The Last Thing I SawEpisode 18: Time with Amy Taubin + 70s Horror with Beatrice Loayza and Christina NewlandWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week, I start with a featured look at Time, directed by Garrett Bradley. I talk with the wonderful Amy Taubin about the movie, which is one of the year’s best. On the second half of the episode, I look at a terrific collection of 1970s horror available at the Criterion Channel. Critics Beatrice Loayza and Christina Newland join me to discuss the pleasures and politics of the movies, including: Death Dream, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, George Romero’s The Crazies, Death Line, and sp...2020-10-261h 13The Last Thing I SawEpisode 17: New Beginnings, with Beatrice Loayza, Susannah Gruder, and Eric HynesWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host Nicolas Rapold. This week, we’re trying something different. After our usual discussion of recently watched movies, I dig into a special topic with another guest. First I trade New York Film Festival highlights with critics Beatrice Loayza and Susannah Gruder. Then on the second half, I talk about the possible futures facing moviegoing and film exhibition because of the pandemic, with Eric Hynes of the Museum of the Moving Image. We’ll have more of what I’m blithely calling audio magazine features in future episodes, with in-depth looks at fil...2020-10-121h 09
One Heat Minute ProductionsMIAMI NICE: "Overtly Sexy Scenes" with Beatrice LoayzaThis episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join writer and film critic Beatrice Loayza to talk about "hips gyrating" and "torsos jiggling" in the salsa dancing in MIAMI VICE. About Beatrice: Beatrice is a Peruvian-American writer and critic based in Washington, D.C. Beatrice is a regular at The A.V. Club. Beatrice has written for Film Comment, i-D, The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Roger Ebert, Hyperallergic, Bitch Media, Another Gaze, and more. Follow Beatrice on Twitter: @bealoayzaI Think A...2020-10-1150 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsMIAMI NICE: "Overtly Sexy Scenes" with Beatrice LoayzaThis episode of *MIAMI NICE* hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join writer and film critic *Beatrice Loayza* to talk about "hips gyrating" and "torsos jiggling" in the salsa dancing in *MIAMI VICE.*
*About Beatrice:*
Beatrice is a Peruvian-American writer and critic based in Washington, D.C. Beatrice is a regular at The A.V. Club. Beatrice has written for Film Comment, i-D, The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Roger Ebert, Hyperallergic, Bitch Media, Another Gaze, and more.
*Follow Beatrice on Twitter:* @bealoayza ( https://twitter.com/bealoayza )
I Think About Colin Farrell Salsa Dancing a...2020-10-1150 minThe Last Thing I SawEpisode 15: A Toronto Trio - Jordan Cronk, Eric Hynes, Beatrice LoayzaWelcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we’ve been watching. It’s as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time are critics Eric Hynes (curator of film, Museum of the Moving Image), Jordan Cronk (founder, Acropolis Cinema), and Beatrice Loayza, talking about their highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival. The movies include: Nomadland, The 180-Degree Rule, Pieces of a Woman, The Inheritance, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Fauna, Downstream to Kinshasa, 76 Days, and a previous favorite, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.
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One Heat Minute ProductionsAll The President's Minutes - Minute 72 with Beatrice LoayzaAll the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 72, I join DC film and theatre critic with bylines at The Av Club, Guardian, MUBI and Film Comment, Beatrice Loayza. Beatrice and I discuss Gordon Willis' chiaroscuro stylings, being dwarfed by the Washington DC architecture and appreciating that President's has no interested in the affairs of the powerful. Abo...2020-07-2749 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsAll The President's Minutes - Minute 72 with Beatrice LoayzaAll the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 72, I join DC film and theatre critic with bylines at The Av Club, Guardian, MUBI and Film Comment, Beatrice Loayza. Beatrice and I discuss Gordon Willis' chiaroscuro stylings, being dwarfed by the Washington DC architecture and appreciating that *President's* has no interested in the affairs of the powerful.
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The Film Stage PresentsClassic - Starship Troopers (with Beatrice Loayza)Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by special guest Beatrice Loayza to discuss Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, now available on Netflix. One can also tune into our recent discussion of Showgirls with You Don't Nomi director Jeffery McHale on this feed.
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The Final Girls: A Horror Film PodcastHERE BE WITCHES 20 • Black Sunday (1960) with Beatrice LoayzaIn this episode, we’re diving into Mario Bava’s atmospheric gothic horror Black Sunday, released in 1960 and banned in the UK untill 1968 for its graphic violence, considered too gruesome at the time. Based very loosely on Nikolai Gogol’s story VIY (which also has its own Soviet film adaptation that I’d highly encourage you to check out!), Black Sunday follows the wrath of the powerful witch-vampire Asa (played by Barbara Steele in her first big screen role), who places a curse on her family after they execute her for her devotion to Satan. Centuries later, she is resurrec...2020-04-1048 min
Catalyst and Witness2019 Festival Dispatch #3The third 2019 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the second half of the 2019 New York Film Festival, and features guests Graham L. Carter, Beatrice Loayza, and Dan Schindel.
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26:37-48:14 – Part Two2019-11-0400 min