Manuel Betancourt
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Manuel Betancourt
@bmanuel.bsky.social
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
Glad you’re enjoying it (and also I’m always so happy when I see library copies of Hello Stranger)!
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Can’t really go wrong for Pride with Judy :)
June 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Never had a movie lost me so quickly as that film’s opening sequence.
June 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Manuel Betancourt
Also highly recommended: @bmanuel.bsky.social Manuel Betancourt’s book about the Carnegie Hall concert.
Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall
On the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history. That's no hyperbole. Surrounded by a throng of ecstatic fans (3,165 to be exact), the legendar…
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June 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Yes! It’s a damn fine list of films if I say so myself.
May 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM