Just about two years ago I engaged in a long masochistic exercise where I wrote about every single short film that played at the Dallas International Film Festival. This was a defeated gesture – I knew that most of the films would be bad – and was mostly done in the spirit of bomb-throwing. In…… Continue reading Festival Watch: BAFICI Shorts
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The Lucky Star Podcast No. 1 – Juror #2
In the initial episode of The Lucky Star Podcast, co-editors Jhon and Seema discuss Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, its place in the Eastwood filmography and the issues around its release. We also take time to discuss the problems surrounding the streaming release of Pa. Ranjith’s Thangaalan, and we also talk about Contracampo, an exhibition of…… Continue reading The Lucky Star Podcast No. 1 – Juror #2
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
Encounters #2 – Alejo Moguillansky
Here at Lucky Star, we are always on the lookout for points of contact with other cinephile cultures. We are hoping with this 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. In…… Continue reading Encounters #2 – Alejo Moguillansky
Profiles #2 – Un diario de Alejo Moguillansky
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
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
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
Editor’s Note #1 – Three Lists
The All-Time Edition In late 2022, a few film lists were released. The most visible was Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll, now topped by Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Compared to the films which have topped the previous lists (Citizen Kane, Vertigo), it is a radical proposal. But we will…… Continue reading Editor’s Note #1 – Three Lists
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