There is a rare pleasure to be found when encountering work that, after an unassuming first impression, reveals a center of gravity strong enough to draw other work into its orbit, even more the case when that influence is subtle, at the edge of description. I’ve been spending the weeks represented by this grid in…… Continue reading Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 02/01/2025 – 02/14/2025
Author: Nathan Rogers-Hancock
Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 11/16/24 – 12/6/24
It has been 3 weeks since we published our nominally bi-weekly grid, our offices closed for the Thanksgiving weekend. In that time we published Jhon Hernandez on La Grande Maison Paris, the disappointing 2024 continuation of the beloved Japanese drama series La Grande Maison Tokyo. This continues a series of writing about Japanese Drama series…… Continue reading Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 11/16/24 – 12/6/24
Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 10/05/24-10/18/24
Earlier this Summer Lucky Star published a lengthy piece by our editor Jhon Hernandez on his experience programming a festival, focused on Latin American cinema. This week, as the New York Film Festival winds down and the Morelia Film Festival begins, we published a companion of sorts, in which he attends, as an audience member…… Continue reading Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 10/05/24-10/18/24
Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Some Notes on La Noche Submarina
Alejo Moguillansky’s slim 2020 feature La noche submarina, released on a streaming platform that no longer exists in the first bleak winter of the Covid lockdowns, opens by announcing its memorial status with two headstones, one written, the other spoken – In memory of the forty-four sailors aboard the ARA San Juan, sons of Neptune,…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Some Notes on La Noche Submarina
Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Some Notes on Etoile Violette
An old memory, more than a decade old by now – sitting in a drab college auditorium, listening to an alumni who had once worked as production designer on a handful of beloved films, most of them directed by Hal Hartley, but who had at that point transitioned to directing rather undistinguished music videos. A…… Continue reading Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Some Notes on Etoile Violette
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