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Tonight!! Talking all things NYFF with a murderer’s row of critics

Wrote about The Smashing Machine (or How the Rock Learned to Lose) for 4Columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatr...

Wrote about nunsploitation— the gender politics and history of the wily subgenre— for Criterion ⭐️ www.criterion.com/current/post...

New critic’s pick🤪

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Reviewed nu-Bonjour Tristesse for 4C

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Wrote about Val Kilmer for the Atlantic. Here’s a gift article for your reading pleasure www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Huge delight to have written the liners for the @criterion.bsky.social release of Alan Rudolph's CHOOSE ME. I'm particularly proud of this one, perhaps because the film hits too close to home. Heterosexuality is masochism and we like it! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Miraculously found my way onto French television via France 24’s Perspective program. Spewed some hot Oscar goss😌

Bye Berlin. Saw the movies, did the thing, thought about the German historical memory complex: www.nytimes.com/by/beatrice-...

Feeling privileged to have been given the space and (extra) time to write about David Lynch for 4_columns. Here I am on him and his women...

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Thanks to my readers + editors for making this freelance writer thing work another year. It's a tough gig but I'm lucky enough to do it full-time in relative comfort and write about things I genuinely love. Here are some selected longer form pieces of mine, links on my site beatriceloayza.com

Worth noting the B&N Criterion
sale (till tomorrow!) applies to big boxsets, like the monumental CC40 collection — within which you’ll find a few new essays including one on NAKED by yours truly⚡️⚡️⚡️

Wrote 3k+ words on Catherine Breillat, her ideas on victimhood, & the accusations lodged against her by Caroline Ducey. CB is my favorite living director so it behooved me to seriously grapple with her vision & practices—what an honor to do it for NYRB www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...