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Finnish artist and filmmaker Anna Eriksson is returning to the Locarno Film Festival this year with her latest feature, E. Premiering in the Fuori Concorso section, the avant-garde desert journey capturing the loneliness of modern man stars Eriksson, Parco Lee, Elize van Huyssteen, Johannes Haasbroek, and Jooseppi Pyykkö. Ahead of its premiere, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the first trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: “Ex-prime Minister Eva Vogler causes a scandal at the Nobel Banquet and soon finds herself lost in the desert of the real. There she is confronted by her doppelgänger and other characters, one of them a possessed man pretending to be her husband. Throughout the film voice messages are being left on Vogler’s answering machine, suggesting reasons leading to the scandal. The doppelgängers pose a danger for all the lost souls wandering in the desert, since they seek to destroy the original and move...

The Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16) has unveiled the line-up for the 2025 edition, with world premieres including Radu Jude’s Dracula.

Romanian filmmaker and Berlinale Golden Bear winner Jude’s Romania-Austria-Luxembourg co-production, which competes in the international competition, is a comedy drama shot and set in Transylvania that explores the legend of Dracula through multiple lenses. Luxbox represents sales. Jude returns to Locarno after two films played out of competition last year – Eight Postcards From Utopia, co-directed with Christian Ferencz-Flatz, and Sleep #2.

Locarno’s international competition comprises of 17 world premieres, which will vie for the Golden Leopard awards. Among them...

Erik and Lyle Menendez are about to find out if they will get a resentencing hearing. However, some news just leaked about Lyle that might paint the brothers in a bad light heading into this big moment. It appears that Lyle has a girlfriend he met while in prison, and he might be seeking a divorce.

Here is what we know about Lyle and this new twist in his life story.

Lyle Menendez Has A New 21-Year-Old Girlfriend While In Prison

According to reports, Lyle Menendez is having an “affair” with a 21-year-old British student he met online while in prison (via Radar Online). Lyle has been in prison for 35 years since he and his brother Erik were found guilty of murdering their parents.

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The woman is named Milly Bucksey, and the reports indicate that Lyle might want to divorce his wife, Rebecca Sneed, who has stayed...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Netflix's Monsters season 2.

The stories and lives of Erik and Lyle Menendez continue long after the events depicted in Netflix's popular series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The true story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who pleaded guilty to murdering their parents in 1989, is recapped in nine episodes in Monsters season 2, an anthology series by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The series reexamines the unsettling circumstances surrounding the murders of Jos and Kitty Menendez, who were accused of abusing Lyle and Erik throughout their childhoods. Monsters season 2 has been in the Top 10 TV Shows on Netflix since it was released on September 19, 2024.

Monsters season 2 stars Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Erik and Lyle Menendez, respectfully. Erik and Lyle were each given life sentences for murdering their parents and have been incarcerated since December 1992. Both Menendez brothers claimed that their father,...

When Court TV first broadcast the Menendez case in 1993, the trial took America by storm. Now Netflix’s latest series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” is diving into the divisive case.

Though the brothers originally said they were not responsible for the murders of their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, since they’ve admitted to the crimes, they’ve stuck to the same defense. Lyle and Erik Menendez claim that both of their parents physically, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and that they were afraid their parents were going to kill them if they didn’t act first. That’s what led to them pulling shotguns on their parents in 1989.

From exactly what the brothers accused their parents of to the intimacy of Lyle and Erik’s own relationship, here’s what we know from the case.

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It’s been over 30 years since Lyle and Erik Menendez first made headlines for the 1989 murders of their parents José and Mary Louise Menendez, but the brothers’ story is once again making headlines and captivating a new generation of viewers thanks to Netflix.

The Menendez brothers are at the forefront of the latest season of Netflix’s Emmy-winning anthology series Monster, which revisits the events of the past to tell the story of Lyle and Erik and the murder trial that made headlines following their arrests in March 1990. With Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story now streaming on Netflix, interest in the brothers’ case is on the rise as viewers go down the true crime rabbit hole to learn more about the case and the events of the past that both led up to the murder of José and Mary Louise Menendez, the trials that became front-page news, and...

Fewer films by female directors were selected for this year’s programme

Fewer female feature directors were selected for this year’s Locarno programme compared to the 2022 edition according to figures presented by artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro at an event held by the Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network (Swan).

The event was held to mark the fifth anniversary of Locarno’s signing of the Programming Pledge for Parity and Inclusion in Cinema Festivals. In August 2018, Locarno became the first A-category festival after Cannes to make a commitment to ensure greater gender equality and inclusion in its programming.

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Finland’s leading film festival Love & Anarchy is ready to celebrate its 35th edition, free of Covid restrictions and finally able to focus on the films and the audience, says executive director Anna Möttölä in Helsinki. But it has been a bittersweet time, marked by the loss of Jean-Luc Godard and Lina Wertmüller back in December, whose 1973 film gave the event its name.

While Wertmüller will be celebrated with a screening of “Seven Beauties,” another tragedy is on the team’s mind: the sudden death of Charlbi Dean, the star of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner – and the festival’s opening film – “Triangle of Sadness.”

“It will be a memorial screening,” says artistic director Pekka Lanerva. Dean’s co-star, Zlatko Burić, is expected to attend.

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“All our thoughts go to her family and to the cast and crew. To have such a promising career,...

Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman).The lineup for the 75th-anniversary edition of the festival has been announced, including new films by Helena Wittmann, João Pedro Rodrígues, Aleksandr Sokurov and others, alongside retrospectives, tributes, and much more.Piazza GRANDEAlles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit. (Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.) (André Schäfer)Annie Colère (Blandine Lenoir)Bullet Train (David Leitch)Compartiment tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murder) (Costa-Gavras)Delta (Michele Vannucci)Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson)Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)Last Dance (Delphine Lehericey)Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman)My Neighbor Adolf (Leon Prudovsky)Paradise Highway (Anna Gutto)Piano Piano (Nicola Prosatore)Printed Rainbow (Gitanjali Rao)Semret (Caterina Mona)Une femme de notre temps (Jean Paul Civeyrac)Vous n'aurez pas ma haine (You Will Not Have My Hate) (Kilian Riedhof)Where the Crawdads Sing (Olivia Newman)Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann).Concorso INTERNAZIONALEAriyippu (Declaration) (Mahesh Narayanan)Balıqlara xütbə...

Giona A. Nazzaro was today appointed as the new Artistic Director of Switzerland’s historic Locarno Film Festival. He will be tasked with trying to bounce back the event, one of the key European summer film fests, from a pandemic-disrupted year in 2020.

Deadline got on the phone with Nazzaro, who joins from his role at the Venice Film Festival sidebar Critics’ Week, to hear about his plans for Locarno’s 74th edition in August 2021. He says re-opening the iconic Piazza Grande – said to be the largest open-air screening room in the world – will be a top priority after it was closed this year, but notes the team are game-planning for potential further disruption. Nazzaro also tells us about his love for American movies such as The Fast And The Furious franchise, and why he thinks the streaming services are “integral” to the international industry.

Deadline: Let me start by saying congratulations on the new gig.

Non-FictionThe programme for the 2018 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Tsai Ming-liang, Frederick Wiseman, Sergei Loznitsa, Olivier Assayas, the Coen Brothers, and many more.COMPETITIONFirst Man (Damien Chazelle)The Mountain (Rick Alverson)Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)The Ballad of Buster ScruggsVox Lux (Brady Corbet)Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)22 July (Paul Greengrass)Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)Werk ohne autor (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)Peterloo (Mike Leigh)Capri-revolution (Mario Martone)What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)Sunset (László Nemes)Frères ennemis (David Oeloffen)Where Life is Born (Carlos Reygadas)At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel)Acusada (Gonzalo Tobal)Killing (Shinya Tsukamoto)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Morgan Neville)L'amica geniale (Saverio Costanzo)Il diario di angela - noi...

With today’s anxiously awaited announcement of the first wave of films for the 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival, the first serious footprint on the upcoming Oscar season has been made.

Even though the September 6-16 event comes after Venice and Telluride a week earlier, Tiff is enormously influential in terms of helping to set the table for a slew of awards contenders, and if this initial list of 17 Galas and 30 Special Presentations is any indication, the season appears to be promising a lot of films dealing with heavy family issues, humanist dramas, political and hot-button issue movies and highly personal films like If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ first effort since the Oscar-winning Moonlight. There’s not a whole lot of lighter fare on tap — so far at least.

The National Union of Italian Film Critics has revealed its picks for the Venice Critics’ Week section it organizes parallel to the Venice Film Festival. Seven debut features have been set this year in competition for the Audience Award. Each will also be eligible for the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentiis Award that’s handed out at the main prize ceremony and goes to a first film from across all sections. It comes with a $100K purse.

Opening the section out of competition this year is Indian fantasy pic Tumbbad from Eros International and directors Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, while closing duties belong to Tunisian horror movie Dachra from Abdelhamid Bouchnak. Other highlights include Sudanese comedy A Kasha; Syrian war documentary Still Recording; Montenegro’s first entry You Have The Night; and experimental horror pic M, the debut by Finnish pop star Anna Eriksson that’s...