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. theluckystarfilm.net/2025/08/04/t...

And to accompany our text we are also publishing an interview with Carmen Leroi theluckystarfilm.net/2025/06/09/e...

Lucky Star returns with an overview of the short films of French writer and director, Carmen Leroi from @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social theluckystarfilm.net/2025/06/09/w...

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. t.co/KM1QObkyF6

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. t.co/7LNPcULDEq

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.

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. theluckystarfilm.net/2025/03/12/t...

In our new column, @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social considers Vittorio Cottafavi's classic melodrama, Una donna libera Love Sensation: Una donna libera theluckystarfilm.net/2025/03/04/l...

february

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 theluckystarfilm.net/2025/02/03/l...

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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...

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. theluckystarfilm.net/2025/01/22/y...

And here is the Lucky Star Editorial Grid with some thoughts from @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social on PS Vinothraj's Kottukkaali, a little on Amar Singh Chamkila and a reminder that our year in review post will come in January. theluckystarfilm.net/2024/12/20/l...

Proud to present episode 2 of The Lucky Star Podcast. This time @charulata.bsky.social and @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social droom.bsky.social discuss the Hindi film Amar Singh Chamkila, directed by Imtiaz Ali. Streaming on Netflix. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VPG...

An extra-large Lucky Star Editorial Grid finds our team looking at a slate of mostly recent releases, & @nrogershancock.bsky.social ventures into the uncharted territory of middle-brow English language awards season releases with some notes on Queer * Conclave theluckystarfilm.net/2024/12/06/l...

Lucky Star returns with @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social discussing Grand Maison Paris, the new film starring Kimura Takuya, a continuation of the TV show Grand Maison Tokyo. We discuss the aesthetics of jdrama, the movement toward cinema, Tatsuro Yamashita... theluckystarfilm.net/2024/12/02/w...