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The Major Tones (Ingrid Pokropek, 2023)

Reposted by Jhon H.

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 6d

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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Two things.

Translation - Ingrid Pokropek, Excursiones

Reposted by Jhon H.

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 3d

For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones.

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An interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones, one of the best debut films of the decade.

Translation - Ingrid Pokropek, Excursiones

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 3d

For Drunk for Life, a translation of an interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones.

drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

An interview with Ingrid Pokropek, director of The Major Tones, one of the best debut films of the decade.

The Major Tones (Ingrid Pokropek, 2023)

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 5d

Fine, at best.

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 6d

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-...

Two things.

Translation: Critical Perspectives #8 - Laura Tuillier, the Camera-Pen

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 7d

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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Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.

TV Diary - Turn to Me, Mukai-kun

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 12d

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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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 ...

Translation - Critical Perspectives #7 - Jérôme Momcilovic, Upstream

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 19d

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

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

Movie Clubbing - September 2025

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 21d

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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On Hong Kong Cinema Classics

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 27d

For Drunk for Life, a short text one of the best films I've seen this year.

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Translation: Critical Perspectives #6 - François Bégaudeau, Materialist Critique

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 19

The industry is just wating for the 3rd in this finale trilogy to coronate it like Return of the King.

The Decade Project: Sunny (Kang Hyeong-cheol, 2011)

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 17

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 is a series that aims to build a type of canon, year by year.

Translation: Critical Perspectives #5 - Camille Nevers, The Camera and the Pen

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 15

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.

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Critical Perspectives was a series of interviews with French film critics conducted by the film website Critikat in late 2022.

Translation: Emmanuel Mouret in Cahiers

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 10

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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Emmanuel Mouret explores Diary of a Fleeting Affair through the lens of his cinephilia.

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hard prompt tbh

Translation - Critical Perspectives #4 - Alice Leroy, The Object and the Problem

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 8

For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations with an interview with Cahiers critic Alice Leroy.

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An interview with the critic Alice Leroy

Drawing Closer (Takahiro Miki, 2024)

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 3

For paid subscribers and all that, on Takahiro Miki's weepie masterpiece, Drawing Closer, streaming on Netflix.

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On Takahiro Miki's weepie masterpiece

Translation: Critical Perspectives #3 - Occitane Lacurie, new débordements

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

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A translation of an interview with film critic Occitane Lacurie

Event What Does that Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo, 2024) *** / Hong Sangsoo, Composer

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Aug 30

Drunk for Life August 2025 - some stuff on Hong, translations, kdrama, malayalam cinema, Bressane... we got it all

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August 2025

Movie Clubbing - August 2025

Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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On Júlio Bressane's Garoto and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand