Writer/critic for hire 📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!) 📚 The Male Gazed (2023) 📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020) 🏰 Writer on @thecardboardk Rep @MichaelBourret
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With a slate consisting exclusively of documentaries, the Mexican production and distribution company reflects on its two-decade journey toward stability and sustainability. Read more about @artegiosdist at #DocumentaryMag, by @bmanuel.
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the one and only @bmanuel entered a Daniel Doc to chat about intimacy , cruising, strangers, and more… link below…
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After a string of dramatic roles, Matt Bomer needed a comedy. Enter 'Mid-Century Modern' latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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Buy the "Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men" audiobook today and save 50%! Offer ends 04/11. @bmanuel audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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We began our Matías Piñeiro retrospective at the Aero on Friday night with a ISABELLA (2020) / VIOLA (2012) double feature 👏
Thank you to filmmaker Matías Piñeiro for an excellent discussion moderated by @bmanuel.
Retrospective runs through 3/31:
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Our highly anticipated Matías Piñeiro in-person retrospective kicks off tomorrow night at the Aero! ✈️🇦🇷🎥
Join us for a Shakespeare
-centered double feature of ISABELLA (2020) / VIOLA (2012) + Q&A moderated by @bmanuel on Fri. 3/14 at 7:30 pm.
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Friday at the AC! 🥩
PRIME CUT (1972) - 7pm LF3
TAXI DRIVER (1976) - 7pm Egyptian
ISABELLA (2020) / VIOLA (2012) + Q&A with filmmaker Matías Piñeiro, moderated by @bmanuel - 7:30pm Aero
FACES (1968) - 10pm LF3
americancinematheque.com/now…
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“A dazzling, daring provocation... with her Sundance debut, writer-director Gala del Sol announces herself as a fabulous off-kilter voice in contemporary cinema” says @bmanuel on RAINS OVER BABEL (@RainsOverBabel) in its world premiere at #Sundance2025 variety.com/2025/film/review…
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HELLO STRANGER author @bmanuel shares some of the books that shaped his adolescence, helped inspire his latest novel, and what he's looking forward to reading next, via @debutiful.
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I’M STILL HERE is a near perfect movie anchored by a wonderfully restrained performance from Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres.
My review for @TheAVClub avclub.com/im-still-here-rev…
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"What would it mean to live – instead of in a short story – to live in a lyric?" — @bmanuel interviewed by Dez Deshaies about his new novel, HELLO STRANGER (@CatapultStory, 2025) on the Foglifter blog ✨
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ALT A graphic with text that says, "Splintering the Storybook Romance: A Conversation with Manuel Betancourt by Dez Deshaies." The book cover for "Hello Stranger" by Betancourt is set to the left of the text. An orange Foglifter logo is centered near the bottom. The graphic background is a blue and pink gradient.
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NY Times (@nytimesbooks) calls @bmanuel's HELLO STRANGER "a persuasive and well-researched disquisition on the edifying and seductive potential of those we don’t yet know." 💜
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The author of “The Male Gazed” returns with a new essay collection about modern intimacy.
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MOVED TO @ChevaliersBooks at 6pm tomorrow
LA, see you tomorrow💋📺
@___adorn @bmanuel @EmmaSpecter @ElizabethTeets
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OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS, Tommaso Santambrogio’s mesmerizing debut opens today! 🌊
“A LUSH AND LYRICAL vision of contemporary Cuba…An intergenerational study on exile and belonging.” – @AskDebruge, @Variety
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We asked @bmanuel about the books that shaped his life!
Discover what books the HELLO STRANGER writer was obsessed with as a kid and what books he is reading next.
debutiful.net/2025/01/14/my-… @CatapultStory
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In this excerpt from “Hello Stranger,” Manuel Betancourt (@bmanuel) explores cruising as a queer practice that requires dreaming up new ways of relating to strangers—one in which we approach the other with vulnerability, empathy, and compassion.
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My feature interview with @bmanuel about his new book, Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacy, is up at the @WashBlade:
washingtonblade.com/2025/01/…
