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Lucky Star is proud to present a translation of a
@jjnegretec.bsky.social
text that focuses on recent Mexican festival films and focuses on the anxieties and tensions facing "auteur" film. Thanks to
@taipeicritica.bsky.social
for permission to publish.

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Translation Corner: Mexican Cinema 2024-2025
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 i…
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August 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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And to accompany our text we are also publishing an interview with Carmen Leroi

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Encounters – Carmen Leroi
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. W…
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June 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Lucky Star returns with an overview of the short films of French writer and director, Carmen Leroi from @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social

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What is the Modern Cinema? – Carmen Leroi
Carmen Leroi’s first two short films feature two characters named Elsa. In one film she is a young woman in her late 20s, and in another she is a woman in her 40s. In the first film, Les bell…
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June 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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In a new festival report, @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social writes about the short film selection of this year's BAFICI, or the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, in an attempt at a comprehensive survey.

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April 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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We wrap up our Cottafavi season with a translation of critic José Miccio's article which discusses the reception of The Flame That Never Dies and how it impacted the rest of his career.
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https://theluckystarfilm.net/2025/03/31/translation-corner-vittorio-cottafavi-flame-that-never-dies/
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March 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
whatever you say about veera dheera sooran, its virtuosity is entirely in place of creating a rich & textured world that is violated by the games of the powerful. this is something essential to the masala form that is in danger of being lost by contemporary practitioners.
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Lucky Star is proud to present a translation of an interview with Vittorio Cottafavi conducted by Michel Mourlet and Paul Agde for Presence du cinema in 1961.
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March 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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In our new column, @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social considers Vittorio Cottafavi's classic melodrama, Una donna libera
Love Sensation: Una donna libera
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Love Sensation: Una donna libera
What Price Freedom? There are certain films where what fascinates us is the relationship between shots, between a camera movement, a pause, a cut, a new angle… It can be overwhelming and confusing.…
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March 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Before the long weekend, see what our editors have been watching, and read @nrogershancock.bsky.social on Nobuhiko Obayashi's Miss Lovely & Yamada Mursaki's Second Hand Love
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In our latest grid, @charulata.bsky.social writes about her relationship to the Polizeiruf 110 TV series and how watching it recharges her cinephilia
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February 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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senses of cinema's loss is our gain - very happy to host this list, always one of the few highlights of the annual list making exercise...
January 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Lucky Star is proud to present our Year in Review. Check out lists from our editors and some of our friends, with some thoughts on a few particular films.
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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 init…
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