"Eddington" (2025)

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Originally posted May 13, 2026. Updated: May 14, 2026


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This week, as part of my ongoing project to see recent movies filmed in Albuquerque, I watched "Eddington" (2025) on Amazon Prime. The film is written, produced, and directed by Ari Aster, stars Joaquin Phoenix and features Emma Stone. 

Aster also produced "Bugonia" (2025), starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; a very clever movie about people caught up in ridiculous conspiracy theories. Of all the films I saw in 2025, "Bugonia" was my favorite. Aster went to college in Santa Fe and spent years in New Mexico. That local knowledge helps in a movie like this. 

Like "Bugonia," "Eddington" is also mired in conspiracy theories. I think Aster aspires to be the most-relevant director of our conspiracy-burdened times. 

Joaquin Phoenix is brilliant as Sheriff Joe Cross. He's able to swing from maudlin speeches to twitchy fury, and back again, in seconds. 

The movie is set in 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and during the George Floyd riots. The characterization of the time is exaggerated and harsh - absurd, really - and before long the movie 'jumps the shark' entirely, not just once, but a number of times. Still, the effect is really interesting and I recommend the movie. 

Albuquerque is used as a filming location for only two minor scenes, so this isn't really an Albuquerque movie. There are important scenes filmed in "Santa Fe County," which may not, in fact, be true - I still need to resolve these sites. 

Much of "Eddington" is filmed in Truth or Consequences (TorC), (the southern New Mexico town of 6,000 whose name was changed from Hot Springs to the radio game-show name in March, 1950). TorC really shines in this movie (indeed, current Google Earth imagery was taken during filming, so locations appear there as seen in the movie). 

A strange movie; perfect for our times!

 

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Notes on Individual Scenes

(First draft)

Walking on road, with two cylindrical tanks in distance - ?

Village tank with mural - Hilltop - 344 W. 2nd Ave., Truth or Consequences, NM (TorC)

Traffic stop - northern NM, somewhere among so-called "Santa Fe County" sites.

Dispatch

Eddington city limits sign - ?

Walking in TorC near Garcia's Bar, 205 S. Foch St., TorC

Garcia's Bar -  200 S. Foch St., TorC

Driving on street, about 890 N. Broadway St.

Supermarket, 630 N. Broadway Street, TorC

Sheriff's office, 308 N. Broadway Street, TorC

Joe and Ted meet at the intersection of Broadway and Jones Streets.

Ted Garcia's house - ?

Walking down street for TV ad - about 610, N. Broadway St., TorC

Paula's Restaurant exterior, 313 N. Broadway St., adjacent to Fire Water Lodge at 311.

Gathering spot, Radium St., adjacent to Louis Armijo Sports Complex, 2800 S. Broadway St., TorC

Sheriff's house

Sheriff's office

Brian's house 

House on hill, dinner

General view of street, vicinity of 520 N. Broadway St.

The Word - Conversations in Christ, 520 N. Broadway St.

Campaigning down street - S. Foch and Broadway Streets

Demonstration - McAdoo and Daniels

Sheriff's office

Making posters - McAdoo and Daniels

Brian's house

Sheriff's house

Big demonstration, vicinity of 520 N. Broadway St.

Paula's Restaurant

Shooting range - ?

Driving home and Sherriff's house

Ted Garcia's house

Wrong way on street in vicinity of 310 N. Broadway St., with right turn on Foch.

Bar shooting

Body in river - ?

Ted Garcia's house

Silhouette of Sandias - Welcome to Gloria, NM - 1 Paseo del Norte NW, Albuquerque, NM 

(35.188777, -106.782417)

Covid testing in vicinity of Double Eagle Airport, Albuquerque, NM, but exact location is uncertain.

Ted Garcia's house

Shed - girl's house

Eddington Town Hall, 301 S. Foch St.

Aircraft - probably stock footage

Video of wedding

Sheriff's house

Driving around Broadway and Jones again.

Interrogation and search

Curve in street - about 103 N. Broadway St.  Turn east on Roverside Dr.

By Ralph Edwards Park

Driving in hills. Sheriff's house

Bandstand cupola - Ralph Edwards Park

Town at night - Sheriff's office

Zozobra - White Supremacy - Austin Ave. and McElroy Ave.

Burning cross on Poplar St. near Matson Ave. (marks still visible on Google Eath)

Burning barrel - explosion - drone

Sheriff's house (address number is "25")

Heading to water tank

Memorial Board is across from Davis-Fleck Pharmacy, 500 N. Broadway, next to Bank of the Southwest

U.S. Post Office and Branch Bank visible as Joe descends hill

Geronimo Springs Museum, 211 Main Ave.  Joe runs down Jones, from Main

Gunther's Pistol Palace, 303 Jones St.

Shootout - At 341 Jones, Joe crosses over along the alley and Sims St., From Jones to Foch to Daniels, to about 541 Sims St., or so, behind Bank of the Southwest

Emergency room, SolidGoldMagicKarp Data Center

Santa Lupe Pueblo Community Center, Bathroom, and Shooting Range