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2 days 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.
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3 days 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.
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4 days 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.
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1 week 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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1 week ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
Among our most anticipated films set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival is Spike Lee’s first narrative feature in five years. Highest 2 Lowest, his reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, follows a reteam with Denzel Washington after Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game, and Inside Man.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
While the critical support and general adoration for the Dardennes’ naturalistic style has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent years, the Belgian brothers are back with a film premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The Young Mothers’ Home (Jeunes mères in France) is written, directed, and produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and will arrive in French cinemas just after the festival on May 23.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
Directing the best American film of 2024 that’s also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massive box-office bomb would typically spell the end of a director’s career. It’s to his fortune and ours alike that Robert Zemeckis’ well never quite runs dry, ergo: Deadline reports he’s set to direct Jennifer Lopez in the Netflix thriller The Last Mrs.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
After the initial main announcement and sidebars, the full Cannes Film Festival lineup has now come into focus with 16 additions today. Highlights include Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in competition, while elsewhere Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water, Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t, Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains, Koji Fukada’s Love on Trial, Lav Diaz’s Magellan, and Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm have been added.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
MUBI’s May 2025 selection has arrived, featuring a Rooney Mara double-bill of perhaps her best film (Carol) and most recent effort (La cocina), Cannes-selected Latin American cinema, and a program curated by Magic Farm‘s Amalia Ulman. As Kent M. Wllhelm said of Magic Farm in his review, “I was sold on the premise of satirizing opportunistic content creators who play dress-up as journalists, but weaving that into the storylines of the ensemble cast is no easy task for a sophomore feature.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
In what may be among the quickest production-to-premiere turnarounds for a feature film, Succession creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s next project Mountainhead wrapped production just earlier this month and will now arrive on Max at the end of next month, just in time for this year’s Emmys cut-off.
