Lucky Star returns with a new TV Diary focusing on two key 21st century jdrsmas, Orange Days and Beautiful Life, both on Netflix. A very long-in-the-works text, enjoy. theluckystarfilm.net/2026/02/17/t...

This is the third year we've done this and it remains a pleasure to go through all the lists. Everyone here had a little hand in helping us these last 3 years. Our little corner of the film world has slowly expanded...

I've written a bit about my top 10 along with some honorable mentions. Enjoy! drunkforlife.substack.com/p/drunk-for-...

J’ai encore fait une liste… (cette fois avec des commentaires laconiques)

Lucky Star is proud to present our Year in Review for 2025. Check out lists from our editors ( @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social @nrogershancock.bsky.social @charulata.bsky.social ) and some of our friends, with some thoughts on a few particular films. theluckystarfilm.net/2026/01/20/y...

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Hope to return with a new post in December and then Best of 2025 in January.

The only list that matters... in January.

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...

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...

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...

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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. 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

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...

More Cottafavi stuff coming up...

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...

The next few weeks...

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...

The editors of Lucky Star also discussed their Best of 2024 lists in a new episode of The Lucky Star Podcast. It's a long one. youtu.be/9E9ZT0lPzwQ?...

Lucky Star is proud to update our collection of 2024 favorites with a list from Olaf Moller - theluckystarfilm.net/2025/01/22/y...

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...

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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...

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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...

Individual ballots of the Cahiers writers

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...

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If you missed it, here is the first episode of The Lucky Star Podcast which centers on Clint Eastwood's Juror #2. youtu.be/s6LqmtnTGoI?...

Really enjoyed subtitling Axelle Ropert’s documentary, Truffaut au présent (2014). What a lovely generation of actors.

If you missed it last week we published our newest edition of our grid. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social gave his first 🔥 and @charulata.bsky.social wrote about the decline of Bollywood over the last few years theluckystarfilm.net/2024/11/15/l...

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Our co-editor @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social spoke with Martin Rejtman for the inaugural LAFFD Film Club screening of Silvia Prieto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7kJ...