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Leonard Pearce

United States

Writer at The Film Stage

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  • 2 weeks ago | thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce

    MUBI’s June 2025 selections have arrived, featuring the previously announced mammoth drop of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: Season 1 & 2 and Twin Peaks: The Return. Additional highlights include Trương Minh Quý’s acclaimed second feature Việt and Nam, plus films by Gregg Araki, Ira Sachs, Alain Guiraudie, and Michael Almereyda.

  • 3 weeks ago | thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce

    Nearly 92, more controversial than ever, and coming off perhaps the least-liked film of his career, Roman Polanski has not entirely been expected to direct again. Yet he, still among our greatest filmmakers, doesn’t seem content to let The Palace‘s final shot close his story.

  • 3 weeks ago | thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce

    Perhaps no distributor does better to enrich film culture than Arbelos, whose run of restorations will continue with this month’s The Sealed Soil. Marva Nabili’s 1977 feature is the oldest surviving directed by an Iranian woman, which is to say: an object doomed to obscurity.

  • 3 weeks ago | thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce

    It’s been one year since Francis Ford Coppola unfurled his epic passion project Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a fall theatrical release in which most press seemed to care more about its box office than artistic merit (it netted about 12% of its $120 million budget). The director has no plans to make that revenue up through a home-video or streaming release, as he’ll stick solely with theatrical bookings for the foreseeable future.

  • 1 month ago | thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce

    While he’d long been rumored to be working in France on a film titled Our Apprenticeship, Ryusuke Hamaguchi told us that project was hardly more than a rumor. He’s now nevertheless set to direct his first feature in the country, with Variety reporting on the imminent start for All of a Sudden, which will star Virginie Efira (Benedetta, Other People’s Children) and Tao Okamoto.

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