Apparently Drunk for Life is Rising on the Film & TV section of Substack. This can only mean one thing - more Jose Celestino Campusano content coming up (subscribe today, I guess!)

For Drunk for Life, The Decade Project returns! This time around dealing with Jose Celestino Campusano's Fango (for paid subscribers). drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-decade...

For Drunk for Life, I've translated a conversation between two Argentine critics (Tomas Guarnaccia and Lucia Requejo) centered around the 2024 FICValdivia festival. Very fascinating conversation. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers, on Takahiro Miki's latest film, My Beloved Stranger. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/my-beloved...

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For Drunk for Life, a translation of a Richard Linklater interview with Cahiers. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, a translation of a Richard Linklater interview with Cahiers. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

In October, Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones, C. Prem Kumar's 96, finished Critical Perspective series, TV Diary, no horror. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/october-2025

Movie Clubbing returns with Gabby's Dollhouse and Cantinflas. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-club...

The final translation of our @critikat.bsky.social Critical Perspectives series is with Jean-Marc Lalanne, editor in chief of the cinema section of Les Inrocks. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Some very uninformed thoughts on mar del plata and fuera de campo lineups. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

For Paid Subscribers and all that, New Kinds of Love, a column dedicated to Indian films that deal with romance, returns with C. Prem Kumar's beautiful 96. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/new-kinds-...

For Drunk for Life we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social interview translations (one more!) With Daniella Shreir, editor of Another Gaze. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers and all that, I wrote on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones, one of the best debuts of the decade. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-major-...

For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers and all that, I wrote on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones, one of the best debuts of the decade. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-major-...

For Drunk for Life we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations with French critics. This time around with Laura Tuillier, filmmaker and critic, formerly at cahiers now at liberation. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Drunk of Life returns with a TV Diary on Turn to Me, Mukai-Kun, a Japanese TV series which places conversation at its center. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/tv-diary-t...

For Drunk for Life we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations of interviews with French critics. This time around, Jérôme Momcilovic, author of books on Maurice Pialat and Chantal Akerman. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Paid posts on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones and C. Prem Kumar's 96... More translations... a TV diary? Absolutely no horror. Never.

For Drunk for Life, on two Hong Kong cinema classics seen on the big screen in Dallas, Texas - John Woo's Hard Boiled and Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-club...

For Drunk for Life, a short text one of the best films I've seen this year. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/brooks-mea...

For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of translations of @critikat.bsky.social interviews with French critics. This time around a discussion with François Bégaudeau, author and star of Laurent Cantet's the class, on his relationship to film criticism. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Next month on Drunk for Life... if I can get around to all of it.

For paid subscribers and all that. A new text on Drunk for Life which covers the 2011 film Sunny in detail, examining its ideas of nostalgia and wish fulfillment, as part of The Decade Project, which tries to build a sort of a canon, one year at a time. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-decade...

For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations of interviews with French critics. Fascinating discussion with Camille Nevers on her critical practice, cinephilia, actors and more. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, I've translated a piece from Cahiers where Emmanuel Mouret discusses the films that informed Diary of a Fleeting Affair. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations with an interview with Cahiers critic Alice Leroy. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers and all that, on Takahiro Miki's weepie masterpiece, Drawing Closer, streaming on Netflix. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/drawing-cl...

Over at Drunk for Life, we continue our series of translations of @critikat.bsky.social interviews with contemporary French critics. This time with Occitane Lacurie, editorial at Debordements. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Drunk for Life August 2025 - some stuff on Hong, translations, kdrama, malayalam cinema, Bressane... we got it all drunkforlife.substack.com/p/august-2025

For Drunk for Life, a new column called Movie Clubbing... this inaugural post on Bressane's Garoto and Mukherjee's Anand. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-club...

For Drunk for Life, a short text on Khalid Rahman's boxing coming of age film, Alappuzha Gymkhana, one of 2025's most charming films. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/alappuzha-...

Over at Drunk for Life, we continue our series of translations of @critikat.bsky.social interviews with contemporary French critics. This time with Mathieu Macheret, a critic for Le monde and Cahiers. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers and all that, over at Drunk for Life launching a new column dedicated to Indian cinema, specifically films that deal with romance. We start with 2015's Premam. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/new-kinds-...

In late 2022 French film criticism site @critikat.bsky.social launched a series of interviews with critics to discuss the state of criticism. Over at Drunk for Life, we start with the founder of Microcine, Samir Ardjoum. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, some brief thoughts on kdrama Melo Movie, now streaming on Netflix, set in the world of the Korean film industry. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/tv-diary-m...

For subscribers to Drunk for Life, I left in the Chat a list of the best films of 2025 so far. Keep in mind I have seen all of them… drunkforlife.substack.com/chat

For Drunk for Life, a translation of a recent short piece on Hong's work as a composer. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Paid Subscribers and all that, some observations (and reservations) about Hong's latest film... drunkforlife.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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...

How it feels to go to an 11am matinee with a crisp refreshing Coca Cola and a hot popcorn

Here is an index of last month's posts. Texts on James L. Brooks, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, some catty remarks about film websites... it's all here. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/junejuly-2...

This text touches on... brazilian/french/spanish film blogs, The Dissolve for a sec, with input from @critikat.bsky.social editors, and some extended thoughts on @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy and @outskirtsmag.bsky.social - it's a lot. Anyway, moving on.

Drunk for Life (August) - Hopefully I can get around to all of this...