The story of Lucky Star starts around 2019. The initial discussions were inspired by the Argentine film journal, La vida útil, and our desire to have a space to explore our cinephilia. In that initial conception, we had planned to start out with dedicated issues. We wrote a lot toward this goal, but ultimately landed…… Continue reading Year in Review: Best of 2024
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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
What is the Modern Cinema? – Grand Maison Paris
Grand Maison Paris recently premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. It is the continuation of 2019’s Grand Maison Tokyo, a Japanese television show. It’s an odd thing when a television show makes the jump to the cinema world. The TV series followed Kimura Takuya (an axiom of J-Drama) on his quest to create…… Continue reading What is the Modern Cinema? – Grand Maison Paris
Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 11/02/24-11/15/24
If you’ve been following these biweekly grids at all, you might’ve noticed that they have been distinctly devoid of American films. In the past, this has been the result of some specific rabbit hole we have gone down on or some project taking up our collective imagination but this year has just been one where…… Continue reading Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 11/02/24-11/15/24
Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 10/09/24-11/01/24
This note comes to you directly from the Latin American Film Festival of Dallas offices. As I finalize next year’s selection, I was also wrapping up the final touches on the translation of Jean-Claude Guiguet’s text, The Gift of Tears, a text that I’ve carried with me for a long time. It speaks with an…… Continue reading Lucky Star Editorial Grid – 10/09/24-11/01/24
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
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