‘Lux Aeterna’ Film Review: Gaspar Noe Wants to Mess You Up, Again

Anna Marie de la Fuente Ran Tal’s moving documentary “1341 Frames of Love and War” has won three key awards at DocAviv and been sold to seven territories by sales company Reservoir Docs.Tal took home the best director prize while Nilli Feller snagged the editor award. In addition, the doc won the Kedar Foundation Award for a film inspired by Israel’s history and society, which includes a $15,000 cash prize.Since its world premiere at the Berlinale Special sidebar of the Berlin Film Festival, Reservoir Docs, which handles world sales excluding North America, Israel, Greece and Portugal, has sold the doc to several territories, including Non Stop (Nordic), Tanweer Films (Greece) and Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais (Portugal).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWarner Bros. Discovery Thursday announced its management team for Japan, Australia New Zealand, reporting into James Gibbons, WBD’s president and managing director.The reshuffle follows similar announcements for the EMEA area under Priya Dogra and India, Southeast Asia and Korea under Clement Schwebig.In addition to the above appointments, David Macdonald is named VP Networks, Japan, based in Tokyo.

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Warner Bros Discovery is wasting no time in unveiling new leadership teams across the globe with the most recent structure outlined for Japan, Australia and New Zealand under James Gibbons, President and Managing Director of the region. This follows teams in EMEA, India, Southeast Asia and Korea being confirmed in the past 36 hours.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran BBC producer Esther Springer has left after two decades to join fledgling creative indie Creators Inc.’s TV and film division.

It's been just over four years since Rae Sremmurd shared SR3MM, the third collaborative album from sibling rappers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi. The aptly-titled fourth full-length SREMM4LIFE is on the way according to the group's go-to producer and label head Mike WiLL Made-It, with Wednesday seeing the release of its first official single "Denial." Swae Lee's voice, rich with a doe-eyed melodicism that sweetens even his most scandalous lyrics, remains Rae Sremmurd's secret sauce, and it's lavished all over "Denial." That works to the syrupy love song's benefit, considering that the production taps the kind of melancholic guitar loop that's enduringly – some would say maddingly – popular in modern rap.

Scotland’s First Minister said visiting Prestwick felt ‘like coming home’ when she surprised school pupils to congratulate them on winning a top reading award.

Bird flu has spread to the Isle of St Kilda after a breakout among the Shetland Isles.

East Kilbride have signed former Wolves and Ayr United goalkeeper Jack Ruddy.

The Scottish Government has flatly rejected any prospect of reviving the controversial Right to Buy policy which allowed council tenants to purchase their homes.

Love Island 2022 is well underway, with drama already happening and romances beginning to heat up in the iconic villa. A whole new batch of singletons have headed to Mallorca in search of long-lasting romance and while some seem to be forming connections, others haven't been so lucky.

With Love Island back on our screens, a whole host of singletons are looking to find love in the popular dating show’s new Majorcan villa. Among one of the contestants to join the lineup is Luca Bish, who has been coupled up with fellow Islander Paige Thorne since day one. And while the 23 year old may be on the lookout for love, before his time on the show, the Brighton-based fishmonger briefly dated a familiar face.

After a long and challenging casting process, it appears that Madonna has finally chosen the actor who will portray her in an upcoming biopic.The casting for the long-gestating film has been making news since the project was first announced, and now, according to reports in Variety, the role of the Material Girl will go to Julia Garner.Fans of the singer praised the selection of Garner with one user saying, Maybe it’s too soon to say (we DO need to see the film still) but I’m struggling to think of examples of casting as perfect as Julia Garner as Madonna – & it goes far beyond the physical similarities. A performer as powerful as Garner will embody this role to the FULLEST extent,” while another fan tweeted “Julia Garner as Madonna is the smartest decision ever.”  A post shared by Julia Garner (@juliagarnerofficial)Garner, who has won two Emmy awards for her role as Ruth Langmore in Ozark, beat out fellow finalists including Florence Pugh, of who Madonna told the Associated Press in 2021, “She’s definitely up there on the list, if she’ll have me.” Alexa Demie (Euphoria), Emma Laird (Mayor of Kingstown), Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), and Odessa Young (Mothering Sunday) as well as singers Bebe Rexha and Sky Ferreira rounded out the remaining Madonna candidates.  A post shared by Madonna (@madonna)Madonna, who is directing the film, put the contenders for the role through what has been described as a “grueling” casting process, including a “Madonna boot camp,” which focused on singing and dancing.The Hollywood Reporter said all the finalists were put though long days (reportedly as long as 11 hours) of choreography training, after which Madonna herself would direct the candidates in more choreography.

Stacey Solomon may have been mortified at the time but she was able to laugh off her very own 'Bridget Jones' moment as she told fans about her blunder. The Loose Women star took to her social media page to share her family's latest antics with her millions of followers.

Kylie Jenner and daughter Stormi Webster enjoyed an adorable shopping trip together as they caught a glimpse of Kylie’s makeup and skincare lines. The 24 year old, who recently posed in a nude effect bikini, gave her 346milion followers a glimpse inside the sweet mother-daughter outing as she documented the trip on Instagram. Kylie and four year old Stormi headed to the American beauty store Ulta Beauty in Calabasas where they posed next to displays full of Kylie Skin and Kylie Cosmetics products.

Neighbours is making a return in the UK, but not in the way you would expect. The Australian based soap is planning a UK theatre tour after the long-running show was axed from both its Aussie channel and UK broadcaster, Channel 5, in August. The tour will begin in March 2023 and celebrate the past 40 years of the soap.

Sophie Wessex gave a beautiful nod to Dame Deborah James during her trip to Gibraltar trip with her husband, Prince Edward. Deborah is currently receiving at-home hospice care for her stage four bowel cancer, five years after she was first diagnosed with stage three of the disease.

Zack Sharf A man being bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher. Two children being murdered by a sniper.

Naman Ramachandran Disney’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness” opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with a mighty £19.5 million ($24.3 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.

Four years, two films, and one near-fatal experience after his last feature, writer-director Gaspar Noé has a lot to share. The experimental Argentinian filmmaker – who’s built his career in France over the past 25 years – had a brain hemorrhage in between the 2019 Cannes midnight premiere of “Lux Aeterna,” his assaulting, intellectual 52-minute strobe light thriller about a witch shoot from hell, and the making of his next film “Vortex,” a patient, heartrending, nearly two-and-a-half-hour dementia drama.

Audrey Diwan’s opened to an estimated $34k on four screens in NY and LA this weekend for a PTA of $8,500. The locations on both coasts — IFC Center/AMC Lincoln Square and The Landmark/AMC The Grove — while limited showed the abortion drama set in 1968 France competing successfully in commercial crossover multiplexes as well as arthouses.