Know about Never Look Away movie, Letter to A Friend in Gaza

London's Royal Albert Hall, which has hosted some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and sport, is getting a Hollywood-style Walk of Fame, and those being honored range from Queen Victoria to singers Adele and Eric Clapton.

Clapton, Churchill among those honored by Royal Albert Hall 'Walk of Fame'

London's Royal Albert Hall, which has hosted some of the biggest names in entertainment, politics, and sport, is getting a Hollywood-style Walk of Fame, and those being honored range from Queen Victoria to singers Adele and Eric Clapton. Paying tribute to "key players" in the building's history since it opened in 1871, the Royal Albert Hall Stars honor 11 people and institutions with engraved stones, each decorated with a brass star and laid out around the famed site.

'Lives of Others' director returns to divided Germany in 'Never Look Away'

The maker of "The Lives of Others" returns to divided 20th century Germany in "Never Look Away", a film that premiered in Venice on Tuesday and is already being talked about as his second potential Oscar winner. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose last film "The Tourist", starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, was panned by the critics, is back with "Never Look Away", about a struggling artist in Nazi, and then Communist, eastern Germany.

Venice: 'Lives of Others' Helmer Returns to the Big Screen With 'Never Look Away' https://t.co/Mz8ZAWbdTB

— Variety (@Variety) September 1, 2018

Israeli filmmaker Gitai raps Israel in 'Letter to A Friend in Gaza'

Amos Gitai's "Letter to A Friend in Gaza" offers unflinching criticism of Israel's blockade of Gaza and its lethal response to Palestinian protesters, in which the filmmaker asks fellow Israelis to examine their conscience. In the non-fiction short, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, Israeli and Palestinian actors read out stories and poetry, including a piece by journalist Amira Hass published in Haaretz, called: "'I Was Just Following Orders': What Will You Tell Your Children?"

New York's Fashion Week kicks off the month of global presentations

Top designers, A-list stars and thousands of fashionistas will converge on New York this week for the annual week-long preview of Spring fashion, which officially kicks off on Thursday following a Wednesday evening show of creations by luxury brand maven Tom Ford. With well over 100 runway shows and presentations plus countless parties at venues around the city - including from top names such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren, which is marking its 50th anniversary on Friday with a Central Park gala - buyers, media, and fashion cognoscenti will be hard-pressed to fit in smaller, lesser-known houses.

Trauma and pop music collide in Natalie Portman's 'Vox Lux'

In 2010, Natalie Portman opened the Venice Film Festival as a tormented ballerina in "Black Swan" - a role which earned her an Oscar. She was back on Tuesday with "Vox Lux", as a brattish pop star with a troubled past. That past plays out in the film's early scenes, where Portman's character, Celeste, played as a 14-year-old girl by Raffey Cassidy, has her life transformed by a school shooting that leaves her wounded and psychologically scarred.

Venice Film Review: Natalie Portman in 'Vox Lux' https://t.co/kpJXqrTeFf

— Variety (@Variety) September 4, 2018

Willem Dafoe plays tormented genius Van Gogh in Venice biopic

With his ginger beard, straw hat and a sad, wounded expression, Willem Dafoe look uncannily like a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait, as he plays the artist in a biopic that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. "At Eternity's Gate" begins with the impoverished Van Gogh in Paris in the 1880s where his paintings are, at best, ignored and, at worst, derided as incompetent.

Stolen ruby slippers used in Wizard of Oz recovered by FBI

A pair of ruby slippers worth millions that were featured in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" and stolen from a Judy Garland museum 13 years ago have been recovered in Minneapolis, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday. The FBI said it was asking the public to help identify suspects connected with the original theft and a more recent scheme to extort money from the owners of the red sequined shoes, one of four pairs worn by Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the 1939 classic.

Thom Yorke follows Radiohead bandmate Greenwood with first film soundtrack

Thom Yorke has produced some "really frightening noises" for the horror movie "Suspiria" - his first venture into making a film soundtrack - as well as tunes of "sadness and sweetness". The Radiohead front-man has followed bandmate Jonny Greenwood into film music. Greenwood wrote the acclaimed score for the 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis movie "There Will Be Blood", and was nominated for an Oscar this year for another Day-Lewis/Paul Thomas Anderson collaboration, "Phantom Thread".

Aretha Franklin's eulogy was 'offensive and distasteful,' family says

Members of Aretha Franklin's family felt the eulogy for the Queen of Soul delivered by a pastor at her funeral last week was "offensive and distasteful", they said on Monday. Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., the pastor at Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, spent his time at the podium raising social issues he said were critical to the black community.

Los Angeles will not prosecute Kevin Spacey on 1992 assault claim

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office said on Tuesday it would not prosecute actor Kevin Spacey on a 1992 sexual assault accusation because it fell outside the California statute of limitations. The case, involving an adult male, was presented to Los Angeles prosecutors in April and had been under review. The nature and origin of the accusation were not disclosed.

(With inputs from Reuters)