Czech Oscar winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82

Kim Kardashian, 39, had the sweetest kitchen party with her three youngest children! The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star treated her guests of honor — Chicago, 2, Saint, 4, and Psalm, 1 — with frosted chocolate cupcakes, which was a hit with the party crowd. The trio of siblings had the cutest reactions in a series of videos that Kim filmed of their cupcake feast, which she posted to her Instagram Story on Sept. 21!

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAl Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics “The Morning After” and “We May Never Love Like This Again,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 83.His death was announced by spokesperson Deborah Radel.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentAshina Sei, an established actor in high demand for TV dramas and films, was discovered dead in her Tokyo apartment Monday. Both Tokyo police and her agency have confirmed that she died of suicide, age 36.Born in 1983 in Fukushima Prefecture as Igarashi Aya, she came to Tokyo while still a teenager and soon found work as a fashion model.

Chris Willman Music WriterAl Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 83.

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Lise Pedersen One of several high-profile guests scheduled to attend the Lumière Festival in October, Oliver Stone will be screening a newly restored copy of 1989’s “Born on the Fourth of July” at its world premiere in the French city of Lyon.Other guests of honor include actor Viggo Mortensen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (1998’s “Festen”), Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders” 2014; “Happy as Lazarro,” 2018) and Oscar winning composer Gabriel Yared.

Ann-Marie Corvin While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two.“Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an RTVE Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also made the selection for the Toronto Festival’s market screenings.Set in dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain during the

“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” died Tuesday of natural causes in his Sussex home.The writer was born in South Africa in 1934.

Jordan Moreau Sir Ronald Harwood, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, died on Tuesday of natural causes, his agent told BBC on Wednesday. He was 85.The British writer won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” in 2003.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsRonald Harwood, a South African screenwriter most known for The Pianist has died. The Oscar-winning writer was 85.Harwood, who also wrote The Dresser and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, died Tuesday of natural causes in his Sussex home.The writer was born in South Africa in 1934.

Jiri Menzel, the Czech director who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 1966's Closely Watched Trains, has died. He was 82.

Emiliano De Pablos Five Madrid-based companies, led by leading Spanish production house Tornasol Films, producer of Oscar-winner “The Secret in Their Eyes,” are teaming to launch services consortium Centro Navarro para la Producción Cinematográfica in Navarre, Northern Spain.Based out of the Sarrio industrial park in Berrioplano, a town near Pamplona, CNPC will provide production services, develop R&D projects and launch industry training programs in a region of Spain that is consolidating as a

Czech film director Jiri Menzel, whose 1966 movie Closely Watched Trains won the Academy Award for best foreign language film, has died aged 82.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterCzech director Jiri Menzel, who helmed the Oscar-winning feature Closely Watched Trains, died on Saturday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 82.His wife, Olga confirmed his death on Instagram and Facebook.

Will Tizard ContributorOscar-winning Czech director, writer and actor Jiri Menzel died Saturday following a long illness.Menzel’s death was confirmed by his wife, Olga, who posted the news on Instagram and Facebook late Sunday.