Day 1 After watching the films of Alejo Moguillansky I am wondering how to deal with them, what strategies to use, how to respond to what I see. I have a Word document open with various notes, quotes, articles, translations. I am wondering how to use them. I have to imagine that Alejo Moguillansky…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Un diario de Alejo Moguillansky
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Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Index
Let us place Alejo Moguillansky on the map of international cinema. In his home country of Argentina, he is respected as part of El Pampero (a collective of filmmakers which includes him, Mariano Llinás, Laura Citarella and Agustín Mendilaharzu). El Pampero Cine operates outside of the traditional methods of film financing and production, refusing the…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Index
Year in Review: Best of 2023
This is not an essay on the year in cinema. Don’t worry. We are ill-equipped to do something like that. Instead it would be good to end the year with an act of self-criticism. To start, we’ve done a good job in defining certain areas of interest in our texts, but only as it relates…… Continue reading Year in Review: Best of 2023
Encounters #1 – Lautaro García Candela
Here at Lucky Star, we are always on the lookout for points of contact with other cinephile cultures. We are hoping with this new column, Encounters, to establish a dialogue, a line of communication. We get to know interesting cinephiles, critics, directors, etc., all as a way to interrogate our own positions, our own cinephilia.…… Continue reading Encounters #1 – Lautaro García Candela
Translation Corner #4 – 12 Years of Argentine Cinema
12 Years of Argentine Cinema by Lautaro García Candela Están pasando demasiadas cosas raras para que todo pueda seguir tan normal / Too many weird things are happening for everything to go on as normal – Charly Garcia At the Gaumont, the main cinema in the Federal Capital, where almost all Argentine movies are screened,…… Continue reading Translation Corner #4 – 12 Years of Argentine Cinema
What is the Modern Cinema? #3 – Cambio Cambio
Money Trees: Lautaro García Candela’s Cambio Cambio How to film an economic crisis? How to show this in dramatic terms? Make it understood to an audience who doesn’t know its particulars? Or, perhaps more importantly, how to renew this experience for those who have lived it, or are still going through it? This is at…… Continue reading What is the Modern Cinema? #3 – Cambio Cambio
TV Diary #2 – Kimi wa Pet
How do you film a utopia? First, of course, you must try to define it in whatever terms you deem appropriate. Second, once you define it, then it is the matter of filming it. How to approach it? What distance to use? What lenses? How to determine the mise en scene? Because this idea of…… Continue reading TV Diary #2 – Kimi wa Pet
What is the Modern Cinema? #2 – Dallas Shorts
There is a focus in cinephile culture on the latest and greatest festivals – Cannes, Venice, Toronto, etc. But, unless you’re a working critic or happen to live close enough to those cities, these are not the festivals where you will be watching the latest films. You will rely on your local festival, the regional…… Continue reading What is the Modern Cinema? #2 – Dallas Shorts
Translation Corner #3 – Writing and Programming from Latin America
Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós + Joana Pimenta, 2022) Writing and Programming from Latin America by Victor Guimarães “Don’t forget I come from the tropics.” The title of a 1945 bronze sculpture by Brazilian artist Maria Martins was a way of reacting against the capture of her art by a universalist criticism that stated that…… Continue reading Translation Corner #3 – Writing and Programming from Latin America
What is the Modern Cinema? #1 – José Manuel Cravioto
In recent years there has been an uptick in Mexican comedies. Many of these films slip undetected to streaming platforms. They rely on recognizable stars (Mauricio Ochmann, Aislin Derbez, Omar Chaparro, Martha Higareda, etc.) and proven formulas (a Christmas movie, road trip film, remakes) to catch the attention of the unsuspecting scroller. You could get…… Continue reading What is the Modern Cinema? #1 – José Manuel Cravioto
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