Guillermo López Meza

Licenciado en Artes. Crítico de cine.
Freelancer/Ghostwriter. Poeta de los Mal Amados. Santo Patrono de las sobras. Genio, Gracia y Magnificencia. Pope of POP

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Nadie. Nunca. Bajo ninguna circunstancia. Sin importar las consecuencias. Por encima de cualquier causa. Nadie. Nunca.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

I have some news for you, Guillermo.

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"Glee" se acabó para siempre. Pero pensare en ello mañana. Aun no se termina para mi mientras no haya visto esos episodios :'(

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

My DMs are open for Ryan Murphy in case he's recruiting young and promising screenwriters for the Glee-boot.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

And when there's an episode called You Can Glee Everything in which Artie, now a filmmaker, documents Rachel and Jesse St. James household after the scandal of defrauding investors on a Funny Lady (not Funny Girl) Broadway show that wasn't intended to be actually made. Then what?

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Sorry, I don't know what to feel yet about the return of one of the pivotal life-saver pieces of media of my existence during very fundamental spiritually formative years: Glee.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

My #NYFF64 review of the rigorous and quietly intense Fatherland (Pawel Pawlikowski); perhaps one of the crucial intellectually rewarding films this year doing the festival rounds. https://t.co/HXGZbOeRJ1

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

@bernardosim Yeah. It can be very annoying. I think Ebert was a master of it, but he also has many other ways to write and speak about movies that weren't always about "performing". Pauline Kael on the other hand was almost always like that. And Film Twitter tends to emulate that spirit.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Very thoughtful thread that goes beyond La Bola Negra. And I agree, as a film critics we should enact some humility and grace. Honestly how could you not feel humble in front of cinema? I know the hustle demand some arrogance, and the performance of it, but we could do better.

[Cláudio Alves @claudioalvesDC]

I know we all like to feel superior to the artists we criticize, smarter and better informed, but a little humility and an acknowledgment that we might be missing things, even if only acknowledged in private, could do wonders for the reductive way we often talk about art here.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

And sometimes we critics have to go back and relearn things.Go back to Hitchcock and Sarris.Go back to Godard and Canudo. To remember this still very young visual artform exist not to achieve perfection, but constantly redefine itself in a conundrum between art and entertainment.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Almost nobody could be meaner and nastier like when Ebert didn't like a movie. But you could always tell that he was contending with the movies he disliked on their level, not above them. A lot of film critics these days sound like bored doctors giving a definitive diagnosis.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

At long last here's my review of La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi). There's so much I can say (and I will say), but this summarizes well my thoughts on why this is one of the best movies of the year.

https://t.co/pyIFHz1a4l

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

I wanna see them (again) and own them on Blu-ray.

[Searchlight Pictures @searchlightpics]

You can see Amanda Seyfried and Christopher Abbott in The Testament of Ann Lee

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

@blewis1103 Thanks. And taking into consideration that while this is a Hispanic work (not Latin), still the baroque inheritance came from Spain (mainly) and there's a connection there on how we tell our stories.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Finally an exciting Oscars Best Song race. Taylor and Guitarrica would be deserving winners, but there's also THAT song from The Debut, Gaga with Shape of a Woman, songs from both Behemoth! and Artificial.The Rivals of Amziah King,dark horse.And Diane Warren will always be there.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

But also it's important and essential to have a Spanish Gay Titanic. We need more of that as well in cinema, directors wanting to make big beautiful ambitious movies that are still smart, profound, and reeducate the spectator to demand better from commercial mainstream movies.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

What people like this do with their absolute freedom? Constantly questioning the choices and perspectives of people from nations with a long history of not having their freedoms.

[fashion mullet diaries 😔 @keitherpuss]

La Bola Negra is bafflingly unaware of real history in a dispiriting way. Not an ounce of any understanding of fascism in any frame. Some gay guys shouldn't reveal their worldviews in a sprawling epic I fear :/

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

A more revolutionary movie will sacrifice the direct intention of becoming a "Spanish gay Titanic". Sure, you may want a different movie entirely with different purposes. But you have to try at least to understand the movie you're watching, and other ways it can be enlightening.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

Cinephilia is truly at odds with nurturing a fitness life.

I haven't been able to train properly at the gym during this one festival after another season.

[Guillermo López Meza @LazloAlmasy]

De pronto caigo en cuenta que este año he tenido a Madonna y a Scorsese frente a mí.