Ed Gonzalez

'Él' Review: Luis Buñuel's Mordant Tale of Male Obsession Él remains one of Luis Buñuel’s crowning achievements.

Not saying you should read this piece on ÉL, maybe my favorite film by my favorite filmmaker, because I wrote it in my early 20s and, well, it's a miracle I never took it down in embarrassment, but you SHOULD very much go see the new restoration at Film Forum!

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman.

2025 can just fuck right off.

Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

The Closeted Imagination: Doug Dibbern and Richard Scott Larson on Film Memoirs Doug Dibbern and Richard Scott Larson discuss exploring the links between film spectatorship and self-conception.

Very excited to share this conversation between me and Doug Dibbern on our memoirs: "I was a film studies student before I ever thought about writing a memoir, so it made sense that my first book would center a deep engagement with the movies as I told a story about my own life." @slantmagazine.com

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.” ― David Lynch

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

When I married @richardscottlarson.com, these were my wedding vows, written by that crazy clown David Lynch:

Same here…unless you count a 7pm screening the night before as a “press” screening.

'The Damned' Review: A Narratively Thin Morality Tale Thordur Palsson's 19th-century-set 'The Damned' draws on Icelandic folklore about the draugr, or reanimated corpse.

There’s evocativeness and then there’s lack of context, and it feels as if THE DAMNED's cinematography and Odessa Young’s performance are trying to deflect attention from the latter. Read @certifieded.bsky.social's review.

The 25 Best Films of 2024 - Slant Magazine Our favorite films of 2024 put to shame the notion that cinema is dying.

For all their looking back, our favorite films of the year don’t engage in thoughtless nostalgia for an earlier time. #BestOf2024

Brutalist vinyl announce when?

Silvia Pinal, Golden Age Star of Mexican Cinema, Is Dead (Gift Article) She found outsize success in her native land and gained international recognition for her work with the acclaimed Spanish surrealist director Luis Buñuel.

“To this day, I don’t know what that film is about.”
—the great Mexican star Silvia Pinal on THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, 1962). She died Nov. 28, age 93, or was it 94? This is a gift link to her obituary in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/m...

My brother’s cat has been lounging casually in his Christmas tree and I’m obsessed 😂

That man is an ass=hole.

These posts are truly consistently exasperating, and it’s why, for sanity’s sake, I read them in my head as Bill Hader’s Stefon.

Holiday gift ideas for the LGBTQ+ reader - QnotesCarolinas.com So you looked at the calendar the other day and… eeeek. You’re not very far away at all from the holidays and you’re uncomfortably far away from having everything ready. At the top of your agenda is f...

My memoir made this list of holiday gift ideas! Perfect for the sad and vaguely traumatized gay person in every family

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Happy Caturday from these cute dudes.

Hello!

I am the Bluesky account for the New York Film Critics Circle.

(You have to take my word for it, I have no way of proving it to you, other than to say that we are all fueled by Richard Brody's luscious beard.)

Follow us here, especially as our big voting day is on Tues, Dec. 3

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...