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...

This is absolutely essential writing for everyone out there trying to be a film critic.

Let's end this first month of posts with a modified form of what was going to be Editor's Note 2 for Lucky Star. It is made up of a few stray observations regarding question of what film outlets write about... drunkforlife.substack.com/p/drunk-for-...

A short capsule on Cinderfella and Frank Tashlin in general... drunkforlife.substack.com/p/cinderfell...

For paid subscribers and all that. On Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest film, Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/cloud-kiyo...

To round out this Kiyoshi Kurosawa week, I've translated the interview that he did with Positif which also touches on his remake of Serpent's Path, his thoughts on direction, and more. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, I've translated an interview that Cahiers du Cinema recently conducted with Kiyoshi Kurosawa focusing on Chime and Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life a capsule on Yuji Tajiri's Broken Pieces, a film everyone knows and loves... drunkforlife.substack.com/p/broken-pie...

For Drunk for Life, a few musings on the Venice lineup - hating ass? Not sure. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

I give people what they want and what they want is me writing a capsule on Kpop Demon Hunters drunkforlife.substack.com/p/kpop-demon...

Next week on Drunk for Life...

To round out this Kiyoshi Kurosawa week, I've translated the interview that he did with Positif which also touches on his remake of Serpent's Path, his thoughts on direction, and more. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For Drunk for Life, I've translated an interview that Cahiers du Cinema recently conducted with Kiyoshi Kurosawa focusing on Chime and Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

For paid subscribers and all that. On Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest film, Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/cloud-kiyo...

I have a sickness and her name is Axelle Ropert. Translated her review of James L. Brooks' How Do You Know, as well as a bit of an interview where she talks about his career and influence. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

Some very silly (and hating ass) thoughts on the 2025 Locarno lineup. Link in reply.

Omar Ahmed & Ranjit S. Ruprai are launching The Cloud Door: a boutique UK home video label for South Asian films. I spoke with them for Old New about their Kickstarter campaign, the lack of Indian movies on Blu-ray, and the underground influence of their previously banned first release Om Dar-B-Dar:

For paid subscribers and all that. A piece on James L. Brooks' How Do You Know - it launches The Decade Project which attempts to explore/establish a sort of canon, one year at a time. Link in reply.

And coming soon to Drunk for Life...

Next week on Drunk for Life...

This article was originally translated as part of Lucky Star’s profile of Alejo Moguillansky but we ultimately decided against using it. Now I publish it here. Link in reply.

Now live! Pieces on Lubitsch, Truffaut, Vecchiali and Brac. With this I hope to give an idea of what I hope to publish. Link in reply.