The Indecision of Authorship: Mexican Cinema 2024–2025 by Jorge Negrete There are many dilemmas currently facing contemporary Mexican cinema, several of them shared by other national cinemas, but in the Mexican context, where the act of going to the movies still enjoys robust health, this doesn’t necessarily reflect a healthy overall landscape. A considerable number…… Continue reading Translation Corner: Mexican Cinema 2024-2025
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Translation Corner – Vittorio Cottafavi, flame that never dies
Vittorio Cottafavi, flame that never dies By José Miccio It did not go well for Vittorio Cottafavi at the 1949 Venice Film Festival. Four years after the end of the war, with fascism near at hand and neorealism at its most influential moment, a story like The Flame that Never Dies, the film he presented…… Continue reading Translation Corner – Vittorio Cottafavi, flame that never dies
Year in Review: Best of 2024
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
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 – 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 – 10/05/24-10/18/24
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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