Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza
writing, usually about cinema @nytimes @4_columns @filmcomment @thenation etc // formerly, editor @criterion // [email protected] beatriceloayza.com Brooklyn, NY Joined May 2009-
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This comes out today! Good weekend for frisky movies.
This comes out today! Good weekend for frisky movies.
“Arnow’s monotone stylings and static compositions convey the crushing awkwardness of having failed to move on—in other words, to grow.”—@bealoayza on @arnowjo’s debut feature-length narrative film “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
OUT NOW! ISSUE 320: @bealoayza on emotional intimacy and BDSM in @arnowjo’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Mark Dery on ideological contradictions and gore in “Flowers of Evil” by Charles Baudelaire @NYRB_Imprints, and more. 4columns.org
“Arnow’s latest draws from her usual bag of tricks. But, as the unwieldy title of her film suggests, she places them in an anxious, transitional temporality.”—@bealoayza writes about @arnowjo’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
Wrote about the abject pleasures of Joanna Arnow’s new film for @4_columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
OUT NOW: ISSUE 320! @bealoayza on @arnowjo’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Ania Szremski on “Tenderloin” by Joy Sorman @RestlessBooks, Emily LaBarge on Yto Barrada @PaceGallery, and Mark Dery on Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil” 4columns.org
That Civil War is "empty" and seems to be a big hit doesn't seem to me entirely unrelated to the phenomenon of people having CNN on in the background all day
Walked into my monday night battery park screening of THE LAST OMEN and there’s (1) other person, a gloomy brunette, and we refused to acknowledge each other. Is this what a coven feels like
I just went into a dispensary where there were porcelain bongs that look like they should be hit by Marie Antoinette and two books, one by Didion the other by Murakami, held up like holy ornaments above the display cases. Reggae music blasting (?)
Léa Seydoux, currently the world’s greatest film actor!
"Growing up is about learning how to exist with your broken pieces; finding peace with life’s open questions." 📓 Today in the Journal: @bealoayza on Ena Sendijarević’s TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE in the latest "Strange Pleasures" column. bit.ly/3vPccfV
Pleased with my latest for @thenation, on LOVE LIES BLEEDING and the making of a lesbian tall-tale. (Yes, the Acker reference plays out through the end, if that’s exciting to you) thenation.com/article/cultur…
"Bertrand Bonello’s THE BEAST is an audacious interdimensional romance, techno-thriller and Los Angeles noir rolled up in one." – @bealoayza THE BEAST is a @nytimes Critic's Pick! 🏆 Now Playing. ifccenter.com/films/the-beas…
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@bealoayza @SightSoundmag Agreed! I wondered if CHALLENGERS is the work of a journeyman director who's finally given up on trying to become an auteur, or ... something else. (I guess I think it's the former, and good on Luca)
It's live! Prismatic Ground 2024 returns to @AnthologyFilm @DCTVny @lightindustry and online everywhere May 8-12. Co-presented by @ScreenSlate. Dig in, buy a pass or tickets, donate if inclined— and please, if you support this circus, help spread the word! prismaticground.com
New York!!! Tomorrow night I will have the immense pleasure of moderating a Q&A with THEE @arnowjo and her brilliant cast following a screening of their impeccably titled sexual picaresque THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED @FilmLinc. Come one, come all!
This weekend is going to be a fun time ☀️ Join writer, director, and star @arnowjo and friends for four very special #TheFeelingThat screenings + Q&As at @IFCCenter and @FilmLinc 🎟️➡️ thefeelingmovie.com
never enough Duras in my life—her taste for stasis, the critique nested within apparent motionlessness—slow women gradually gleaning the fruits of hesitation—
MARGUERITE DURAS: AUTO-REMAKES May 2 - 15 INDIA SONG HER VENETIAN NAME IN DESERTED CALCUTTA AGATHA ET LES LECTURES ILLIMITÉES L’HOMME ATLANTIQUE DES JOURNÉES ENTIÈRES DANS LES ARBRES See our website for showtimes and tickets.
MARGUERITE DURAS: AUTO-REMAKES May 2 - 15 INDIA SONG HER VENETIAN NAME IN DESERTED CALCUTTA AGATHA ET LES LECTURES ILLIMITÉES L’HOMME ATLANTIQUE DES JOURNÉES ENTIÈRES DANS LES ARBRES See our website for showtimes and tickets.
This review by @bealoayza is quite good. Can't wait to see the film.
“Arnow’s monotone stylings and static compositions convey the crushing awkwardness of having failed to move on—in other words, to grow.”—@bealoayza on @arnowjo’s debut feature-length narrative film “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
“Arnow’s monotone stylings and static compositions convey the crushing awkwardness of having failed to move on—in other words, to grow.”—@bealoayza on @arnowjo’s debut feature-length narrative film “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
OUT NOW! ISSUE 320: @bealoayza on emotional intimacy and BDSM in @arnowjo’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Mark Dery on ideological contradictions and gore in “Flowers of Evil” by Charles Baudelaire @NYRB_Imprints, and more. 4columns.org
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“Arnow’s latest draws from her usual bag of tricks. But, as the unwieldy title of her film suggests, she places them in an anxious, transitional temporality.”—@bealoayza writes about @arnowjo’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…
Truly and unequivocally the best weekend ever, I can’t get enough of this man (thank you @bealoayza for the perfect photo)
@bealoayza @MarkAschParody @fauxbeatpoet @vrizov This is what I look like when I’m sober actually
@bealoayza @MarkAschParody @intothecrevasse @fauxbeatpoet @vrizov Outstanding
ah si, los dos géneros
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Ron Vawter, James Woods, Al Pacino, Nathan Lane and soon Jeremy Strong have played Roy Cohn, who is becoming an upscale version of the Joker, a franchise IP character constantly reenvisioned to serve new zeitgeists in acting and pop sociology
@criminalbiscutt Alright: for the show's premise to work, the guy has to be a bit of a blank—relentless, a little dead-eyed and unnerving, uninterested in the celeb soft-shoe shuffle that normally puts them at ease. Happy to take a back seat. He is never, ever present in the clips that go viral.