Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Village Voice loomed large for me as a critic and an editor. The Voice I grew up with may be long gone, but it’s been a joy to continue reading my favorite critics who wrote there. For this episode, I’m honored to bring together three all-star alumnae of the Village Voice to talk about movies. Manohla Dargis, the co-chief film critic of The New York Times, started writing about avant-garde cinema at the Voice early in her career. Lisa Kennedy has written for The New York Times, Essence, American Theatre, Variety, and the Denver Post, on both film and theater, and she was an editor at the Voice for a decade, editing pieces by Manohla Dargis and Amy Taubin. Amy Taubin is a contributing editor at Artforum and Sight & Sound, who wrote full-time at the Voice for 14 years;

This episode is something like a dream come true for me, and so I had to ask a little about their memories of the Voice, before we talked about some recent highlights from their viewing. And I encourage everyone to spend some quality time with the Village Voice archives. My deep thanks to Amy, Lisa, and Manohla for taking the time to talk.

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Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass