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3 weeks ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first-ever live gig this year, Talking Heads have finally got around to shooting a video for their classic song “Psycho Killer.” For the occasion, they’ve amassed quite the talent. 20th Century Women director Mike Mills––no stranger to this realm after many music videos, including the National’s I Am Easy to Find––has directed Saoirse Ronan in the music video, which follows a woman’s daily frustrations over 13 days.
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1 month ago | 
thefilmstage.com | Leonard Pearce
It would be no disrespect to imagine Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 tomorrow, might have retired. Even if his nigh incomprehensible age were no factor, last year’s Juror #2 was long rumored to be a self-styled swan song for one of the more immovable careers in film history (and would have made a fine one at that).
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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 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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1 month 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 months 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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2 months 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.
