Jhon H.
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Co-editor of Lucky Star www.theluckystarfilm.net
https://drunkforlife.substack.com
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!)
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For Drunk for Life, The Decade Project returns! This time around dealing with Jose Celestino Campusano's Fango (for paid subscribers).
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The Decade Project: Fango (José Celestino Campusano, 2012)
The Decade Project is a series that aims to build a type of canon, year by year.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-decade-project-fango-jose-celestino
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7 days ago
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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.
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Translation: Crossing the Andes
The newest edition of FICValdivia just wrapped up and I was reminded of this conversation centered on last year’s edition from two young Latin American critics that I found quite interesting.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-crossing-the-andes
9 days ago
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For paid subscribers, on Takahiro Miki's latest film, My Beloved Stranger.
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My Beloved Stranger (Takahiro Miki, 2025)
On Takahiro Miki's latest film.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/my-beloved-stranger-takahiro-miki
14 days ago
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Sean Gilman
18 days ago
Many are saying. . .
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Lists: 2020-2024
The best films of the 2020's so far...
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/lists-2020-2024
19 days ago
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For Drunk for Life, a translation of a Richard Linklater interview with Cahiers.
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Translation - Richard Linklater in Cahiers
On Nouvelle Vague
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-richard-linklater-in
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For Drunk for Life, a translation of a Richard Linklater interview with Cahiers.
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Translation - Richard Linklater in Cahiers
On Nouvelle Vague
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-richard-linklater-in
23 days ago
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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
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October 2025
October 2025
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/october-2025
23 days ago
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Movie Clubbing returns with Gabby's Dollhouse and Cantinflas.
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Movie Clubbing - October 2025
On Gabby's Dollhouse The Movie and Cantinflas
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-clubbing-october-2025
28 days ago
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The final translation of our
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Critical Perspectives series is with Jean-Marc Lalanne, editor in chief of the cinema section of Les Inrocks.
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Translation - Critical Perspectives #10 - Jean-Marc Lalanne, Teenage Spirit
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-006
about 1 month ago
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Some very uninformed thoughts on mar del plata and fuera de campo lineups.
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Thoughts on Mar del Plata / Fuera de Campo
As part of my work for the Latin American Film Festival of Dallas (LAFFD), I’m obliged to keep up with a lot of films and festivals from all over the world.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-mar-del-plata-fuera-de
about 1 month ago
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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.
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New Kinds of Love: 96 (C. Prem Kumar, 2018)
New Kinds of Love is a series dedicated to Indian films that deal with romance in some way or another.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/new-kinds-of-love-96-c-prem-kumar
about 1 month ago
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For Drunk for Life we continue our series of
@critikat.bsky.social
interview translations (one more!) With Daniella Shreir, editor of Another Gaze.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #9 - Daniella Shreir, Another Gaze
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-31d
about 1 month ago
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For paid subscribers and all that, I wrote on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones, one of the best debuts of the decade.
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The Major Tones (Ingrid Pokropek, 2023)
Two things.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-major-tones-ingrid-pokropek-2023
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For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones.
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Translation - Ingrid Pokropek, Excursiones
An interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones, one of the best debut films of the decade.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-ingrid-pokropek-excursiones
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For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones.
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Translation - Ingrid Pokropek, Excursiones
An interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones, one of the best debut films of the decade.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-ingrid-pokropek-excursiones
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For paid subscribers and all that, I wrote on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones, one of the best debuts of the decade.
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The Major Tones (Ingrid Pokropek, 2023)
Two things.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-major-tones-ingrid-pokropek-2023
about 1 month ago
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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.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #8 - Laura Tuillier, the Camera-Pen
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-318
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Drunk of Life returns with a TV Diary on Turn to Me, Mukai-Kun, a Japanese TV series which places conversation at its center.
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TV Diary - Turn to Me, Mukai-kun
Let’s pick up the thread from a previous TV diary entry over at Lucky Star where in the preamble I discussed the idea of “small subjects.” In essence, a TV series can be built of something very small ...
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/tv-diary-turn-to-me-mukai-kun
about 2 months ago
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For Drunk for Life we continue our series of
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translations of interviews with French critics. This time around, Jérôme Momcilovic, author of books on Maurice Pialat and Chantal Akerman.
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Translation - Critical Perspectives #7 - Jérôme Momcilovic, Upstream
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-698
about 2 months ago
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Paid posts on Ingrid Pokropek's The Major Tones and C. Prem Kumar's 96... More translations... a TV diary? Absolutely no horror. Never.
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about 2 months ago
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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.
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Movie Clubbing - September 2025
On Hong Kong Cinema Classics
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-clubbing-september-2025
about 2 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, a short text one of the best films I've seen this year.
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https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/brooks-meadows-and-lovely-faces-yousry
2 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of translations of
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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.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #6 - François Bégaudeau, Materialist Critique
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-fb7
2 months ago
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Next month on Drunk for Life... if I can get around to all of it.
2 months ago
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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.
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The Decade Project: Sunny (Kang Hyeong-cheol, 2011)
The Decade Project is a series that aims to build a type of canon, year by year.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/the-decade-project-sunny-kang-hyeong
2 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of
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translations of interviews with French critics. Fascinating discussion with Camille Nevers on her critical practice, cinephilia, actors and more.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #5 - Camille Nevers, The Camera and the Pen
Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-c49
2 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, I've translated a piece from Cahiers where Emmanuel Mouret discusses the films that informed Diary of a Fleeting Affair.
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Translation: Emmanuel Mouret in Cahiers
Emmanuel Mouret explores Diary of a Fleeting Affair through the lens of his cinephilia.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-emmanuel-mouret-in-cahiers
3 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of
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translations with an interview with Cahiers critic Alice Leroy.
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Translation - Critical Perspectives #4 - Alice Leroy, The Object and the Problem
An interview with the critic Alice Leroy
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-68f
3 months ago
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For paid subscribers and all that, on Takahiro Miki's weepie masterpiece, Drawing Closer, streaming on Netflix.
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Drawing Closer (Takahiro Miki, 2024)
On Takahiro Miki's weepie masterpiece
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/drawing-closer-takahiro-miki-2024
3 months ago
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Over at Drunk for Life, we continue our series of translations of
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interviews with contemporary French critics. This time with Occitane Lacurie, editorial at Debordements.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #3 - Occitane Lacurie, new débordements
A translation of an interview with film critic Occitane Lacurie
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-13b
3 months ago
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Drunk for Life August 2025 - some stuff on Hong, translations, kdrama, malayalam cinema, Bressane... we got it all
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August 2025
Event What Does that Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo, 2024) *** / Hong Sangsoo, Composer
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/august-2025
3 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, a new column called Movie Clubbing... this inaugural post on Bressane's Garoto and Mukherjee's Anand.
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Movie Clubbing - August 2025
On JĂşlio Bressane's Garoto and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/movie-clubbing-august-2025
3 months ago
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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.
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Alappuzha Gymkhana (Khalid Rahman, 2025)
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https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/alappuzha-gymkhana-khalid-rahman
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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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.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #2 - Mathieu Macheret, The Written and the Spoken
A translation of an interview with film critic Mathieu Macheret
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives-d5c
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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.
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New Kinds of Love: Premam (Alphonse Puthren, 2015)
New Kinds of Love is a series dedicated to Indian films that deal with romance in some way or another.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/new-kinds-of-love-premam-alphone
3 months ago
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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.
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Translation: Critical Perspectives #1 - Samir Ardjoum, the Taste for Dialogue
A translation of an interview with Samir Ardjoum, host of Microciné
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-critical-perspectives
3 months ago
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For Drunk for Life, some brief thoughts on kdrama Melo Movie, now streaming on Netflix, set in the world of the Korean film industry.
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TV Diary: Melo Movie (2025)
Some brief thoughts on the Korean drama series, Melo Movie.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/tv-diary-melo-movie-2025
3 months ago
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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…
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Join Jhon H.’s subscriber chat
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
Thechinesecinema.com
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For Drunk for Life, a translation of a recent short piece on Hong's work as a composer.
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Translation: Hong Sangsoo, Composer
A translation of a recent short piece on Hong's work as a composer published in Cahiers du Cinema
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translation-hong-sangsoo-composer
4 months ago
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For Paid Subscribers and all that, some observations (and reservations) about Hong's latest film...
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What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo, 2025)
On Hong Sangsoo's latest film, and his work in general.
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/what-does-that-nature-say-to-you
4 months ago
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Lucky Star
4 months ago
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…
https://theluckystarfilm.net/2025/08/04/translation-corner-mexican-cinema-2024-2025/
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4 months ago
How it feels to go to an 11am matinee with a crisp refreshing Coca Cola and a hot popcorn
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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.
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June/July 2025
June, 2025
https://drunkforlife.substack.com/p/junejuly-2025
4 months ago
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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.
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4 months ago
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Drunk for Life (August) - Hopefully I can get around to all of this...
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