Ep. 191: Amy Taubin on Oppenheimer, Barbie, Command-Z, Richard Kelly

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I talk with the one and only Amy Taubin about the double feature that has attracted crowds to movie theaters this weekend: Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, and Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig. We pick apart what we loved (or hated) about the two films, and then we discuss Steven Soderbergh’s surprise series Command-Z, available only online. Plus a few thoughts on upcoming Richard Kelly screenings.

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Music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Ep. 191: Amy Taubin on Oppenheimer, Barbie, Command-Z, Richard Kelly

Odeon (demo 2)

Side A of New Psycho Actives Vol.2 is out now! Calling this one “Summer Blaze” and wanted to get it out while there was still some summer left to enjoy. Joint effort by Avey Tare and Geo together this time as opposed to a split. Getting some sounds ready to play for you come Autumn as well. In the meantime, hope this hangs well in the humidity.

Summer Blaze - New Psycho Actives

And introducing…the day we’re always never forgetting, it’s 9/11 in popular music! Yes, since we started this show, we’ve noticed almost every musician we’ve covered who’s lived through 9/11 has had BIG THOUGHTS about that important day. So for this year’s 11th of September we brought in Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman to take a complete survey of how 9/11 broke the brains of the America’s musicians, just as it broke the brains of every American.

Songs:

Psy - Kill Those Yankees
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (live at the Super Bowl)
Limp Bizkit - Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten?
I Am The World Trade Center - Metro (Brooklyn Mix)

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#58 9/11 IN MUSIC! (ft. Matt Christman)

This week, we travel to the far reaches of space and the human psyche in James Gray's sci-fi drama "Ad Astra." Brad Pitt is Roy McBride, an astronaut investigating a streak of galactic power surges with mysterious ties to his long-lost father.

Last Bites include Hot Ones with Sean Evans, the Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, the Mark Twain Prize speeches, and Surfer Magazine.

Also on the table: Crystal Hana Kim, Colson Whitehead, Jia Tolentino, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Elisabeth Moss, Alex Ross Perry, Sea Wall / A Life, American Psycho, Final Destination, Japanese RPGs, Choose Your Own Adventure Books

The Distant Father of "Ad Astra"

Brace and Liz enter Phase II of corona-reality, react to Donald’s COVID presser and talk through what it means to step up, resist selfishness and embrace love

War Nerd EP on Italian Quarantine: https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-34822138

Anne Boyer: https://mirabilary.substack.com/p/this-virus

Episode 52: Love in the Time Of Corona

Now unlocked!

For the third part in our Spider Network series, we’re joined by Michael Judge (twitter.com/corpseinorbit) from Death is Just Around the Corner for an expansive discussion about the latticework of shadows weaving around our world. We turn our eye on Colonia Dignidad, the pedophile Nazi cult colony in Chile where a one-eyed rapist helped shape the modern world. Part 1.

UNLOCKED! Episode 83: The Permanent Uncle & His Colony of Righteousness (Part 1)

Titus & Armond White & Matt Zoller Seitz & Godfrey Cheshire talk about their new book of film criticism, covering the 1991-2011 period, & the 90s in cinema--the new works by the masters of the 70s, the new indie cinema, & the new possibilities of film criticism at that time, just before print collapsed & everything was reduced to content...

American Cinema Foundation Critic Series

ACF Critic #40 The Press Gang

We take a look at the recent hubbub surrounding the USPS, what motivates the drive toward privatization, and the larger ideological underpinnings of the Libertarian revolution.

Episode 94: Koch'd Up (Part I)

terms of endearment (1983) / mother (1996)

another miniseries is upon us, the brooks brothers. we start off our month of al & jim with two films about everyone's favorite — you know her, you love her — it's mommy. 

discussed on malcolm in the middle: spree, "flow my tears, the policeman said", & dil se.. 

on the patreon, we talked about johnnie to's don't go breaking my heart, and waxed romantic about everyone's favorite genre. listen for $2/mo at https://www.patreon.com/extendedclip

#65 - brooks brothers: episode 1 - the phantom mother

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THE STREETS ARE HOT TONIGHT (2017)
https://narc.bandcamp.com/track/the-streets-are-hot-tonight

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