Manuel here. This is now my third year giving thanks as part of the TFE team and it really is a gift to be part of such a wonderful group of writers and commenters. One should always give thanks in front of food, so be sure to order some Cuban food from the hot Miami cook in the back.
This year, I'm thankful for...
- Jessup’s tortured gays (let's make him a star, shall we?)
- Gael’s droll leading turns (something about him often gets lost in translation)
- Alden’s smackable supporting one ("Would that it were so simple!")
- Radcliffe's farts (and his indefatigable need to move beyond Harry)
- Amy’s master classes on reading and writing (language is the way to my heart)
- Huppert & her cats (and her fearless feline actressing)
- Portman’s tears (for they are my favorite kind of tears)
- Noni’s/Thandie’s/Paulson’s killer TV roles (where be their big-screen roles?)
- Almodóvar’s reds, Jenkins’ blues, Mascaro’s yellows
- BoJack’s bleak nihilism, Sam Bee’s sunny feminism, Katya’s Russian Unnnhhhism
- Ava DuVernay's 13th, Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, Diego Echeverria's Los Sures
- Rufus Wainwright’s “Forever and a Year,” Sara Bareilles' "She Used To Be Mine," Natalia LaFourcade's "Hasta la Raiz"
And lastly...
- For all of you who read and commented on my HBO LGBT History which came to a close earlier this year.
Manuel Betancourt is an avid moviegoer. This academically minded Colombian wrote an entire dissertation on queer film fandom as, perhaps, a way of reconciling his inner critic and inner fan. Both thankfully, are given plenty of room to play here at TFE & at Manuel's own blog where he puts his queer theory training to work. His favorite film genre is "soul-crushingly depressing if beautifully lensed relationship dramas with juicy parts for actresses."Follow him on Twitter!
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