Luis A. Gómez

Nov 24, 2024 | itsluisgomez.com | Luis A. Gómez

At the end of March 2020, as the pandemic lockdowns entered their first full month, Dan Olson published “I Can’t Stop Watching Contagion,” a short video essay from which this work takes its title. Olson’s video is a tidy summary of the mental state many found ourselves in during those first few days and weeks—glued inexorably to media that would hurt us, but hurt us in a good way, in a way that felt like learning, or at least like we were keeping abreast of the daily horrors.

May 14, 2023 | newyorker.com | Luis A. Gómez

This podcast, hosted, since 2015, by the actor-comedian Griffin Newman and the Atlantic film critic David Sims, dissects the filmographies of notable directors—Elaine May, the Wachowskis, Hayao Miyazaki, M. Night Shyamalan—who, having achieved early success, are given “blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want,” as Newman says in the show’s introduction.