Manuel Betancourt
Assistant Editor, Documentary magazine
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA
📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!)
📚 The Male Gazed (2023)
📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020)
🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023)
www.mbetancourt.com
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- If you’re in Park City attending Sundance and need some doc recs, we at Documentary magazine have you covered.
- Reposted by Manuel BetancourtNew Generation: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY #LAFCA
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- A highlight of my visit to Bend, OR for their fab film festival was time traveling to the early 2000s inside the very last Blockbuster.
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- Category is: Posing with my book, HELLO STRANGER which came out six months ago today! Get it wherever books are sold (namely, your favorite indie bookstore!); and yes, you can even get it on audiobook (read by yours truly).
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- Angels in America remains my go-to work whenever I feel despondent and sink into despair.
- What a fucking nightmare
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- Love Astoria, my former home.
- So many faves I left off.
- Reposted by Manuel BetancourtI was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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- Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 If you’re going to buy gay books this summer, may I recommend two that make for excellent poolside/beach reads?
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- RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: ALL STARS opting for a tournament-style competition is an incredibly brilliant way of making those bouncy early episodes feel weighted with the stress and anxiety of final episodes, all while giving the show a way to reboot itself four times. Low-key brilliant?
- "There are certain ideas that you're just like, 'Oh, I don't want to plant this seed because what if it's an ugly flower?'" — Cole Escola speaking for/to all of us writers. youtu.be/bPvRvh3PsBI?...
- May the 4th content.
- Caught TRAPEZE this weekend and boy was I not prepared for what’s ostensibly a film about watching Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis mosey around in tights on any given shot.
- I see we’re having interactions with strangers discourse… www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
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- Reposted by Manuel BetancourtI needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
- Reposted by Manuel BetancourtMan, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
- Very excited to be part of two panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend with a fabulous all around cohort of queer folks!
- Yes to all of these summers.
- When you think about, growing up with BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER was good practice for living through apocalypse after apocalypse, Big Bad after Big Bad (while still being required to go about your life at school and/or your day job).
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- The best/only way to read HELLO STRANGER, tbh is to stop and watch CLOSER first, naturally.
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- Caught up with the fab Jenny Slate to talk all things DYING FOR SEX (including that hilarious Clueless bit!) (Spoilers for the show if you haven’t yet watched)
- I’ve watched this now so so many times.
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- Loved chatting with Matt Bomer about his new show, Mid-Century Modern, and why he needed comedy after Fellow Travelers.
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- Dispiriting to see my three books (and several journal articles and my dissertation!) here. Love knowing Meta will make millions off of my work.
- Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- Loved this excuse to wax poetic about Julia Roberts, Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver and Maribel Verdú, among others. On Snow White’s scene-stealing role and the actresses who breathed life into the Evil Queen.
- Simon Stålenhag’s illustrated novel, The Electric State, is sublime. Its Netflix adaptation? Atrocious.
- Headed to San Francisco tomorrow for my next HELLO STRANGER book tour stop! Tuesday March 18 FABULOSA BOOKS @ 7pm
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- Sometimes I get dressed up and pose for photos. Thank you @queerty.com for the invite!
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- The White Lotus season 3 keeps getting better and better with every episode!
- ANORA’s wins should encourage everyone to watch Sean Baker’s TANGERINE and RED ROCKET, both of which are fabulous.
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- Who from the Scott Pilgrim cast will join Brie & Kieran as Oscar winners in the future? Aubrey Plaza? Anna Kendrick?
- Rooting for I’M STILL HERE, which may be the dark horse of tonight’s proceedings.
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- Reposted by Manuel Betancourtamerican masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
- AirTalk FilmWeek Oscar Preview episode is up now! We recorded it live last weekend and it was a blast to offer predictions, preferences & predilections with the rest of the FilmWeek critics!
- A gigantic loss to all of us who loved BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER & were forced to reckon with her Dawn, a fiery, brat of a teen character who grew into her own with every episode.
- Always a highlight of Oscar season.
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- Having fun recapping The White Lotus over at the @avclub.com. Here’s me on episode 1
