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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social
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✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
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Thank you to @slashfilm.bsky.social for including CINEMA HER WAY in their gift guide.

www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...
Cover of my book CINEMA HER WAY
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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It’s snowing!
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Turned the comments back on briefly to see what would happen and got another unhinged person relying, so I turned them off again, but also added an edit for the people who need the film to be read to them.
EDIT: I turned off the comments because people on here are unhinged. But to answer the  “what could the film do to be more critical of male violence” question — use filmic language better. All the death and violence in this film is shot like an action film or an epic, making the violence “thrilling” to watch, or in the case of the killing of the sailors renders it cartoonish. A counter example would be Christy, a movie that is not very good, but uses its filmic language to be critical of the violence inflicted by Ben Foster’s character. His scenes of violence are not thrilling; they are claustrophobic and stifling, exactly how he makes Christy feel. But also regardless of the filmic language, any criticism of male violence in this film is made moot by the way both Victor and the Creature are absolved, in the biblical sense, of any guilt they may have for the violence they have inflicted on others.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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and she’s pretty
many copies of my book
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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proof of life
me in a red hat and a large plaid jacket and black skirt
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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in Estonia for #PÖFF29
blurry green press badge in front of a white sign that says: NEVER LOSE THE WOLF IN YOU
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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If you’re in Houston come on down Cafe Brasil for my book signing starting at 5pm!
Good on Paper Copies of CINEMA HER WAY Copies of CINEMA HER WAY Houston Cinema Arts Festival
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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louder for people in the back

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November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift.

🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
Mira Nair chapter in my book Mira Nair illustration in my book THE NAMESAKE photograph in my book Cover of my book CINEMA HER WAY
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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evergreen
the fucks are at it again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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For @letterboxd.social's best of the Fall Fests roundup I wrote about Lucrecia Martel’s NUESTRA TIERRA and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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people are just absolutely losing their minds in the comments of my FRANKENSTEIN Letterboxd review and I really don’t understand the need to, when see a review that doesn’t align with your take, write something mean or personal about the writer (most of which is incorrect reactionary assumptions).
118 comments on my Frankenstein Letterboxd review
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Finally organized my tea cupboard ☕️🫖
Cupboard with three shelves filled with dozens of varieties of tea
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Still thinking about these cheesy grits I had in Charlottesville, VA
Cheesy grits
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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How it started | How it’s going
Prayer plant when I bought it on May 5th, 2025 Prayer plant when I bought it on May 5th, 2025 Prayer plant six months later, November 8th, 2025 Prayer plant six months later, November 8th, 2025
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Very excited to announce two CINEMA HER WAY book events in HOUSTON next week, including a book signing and a screening of Allison Anders' GAS FOOD LODGING.

Book signing: hcaf2025.eventive.org/schedule/68e...

Screening: hcaf2025.eventive.org/schedule/68e...
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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😬
The Economist headline: Should facial analysis determine whom companies hire? New York Times Opinion headline: Did Women Ruin the Workplace? Kyle MacLachlan in the finale of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN with the subtitle: What year is this?
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“I’ve spent my life studying my profession & I’ve come to feel that one lifetime is not enough. When it works well there is something shamanistic about it, but in order to invite that, for lack of a better word, inspiration into your life requires a tremendous amount of discipline”

HBD Ethan Hawke
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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text from Kenneth Tynan 1979's article "Louise Brooks Tells All" in the The New Yorker
This is a pool party at somebody’s house in Malibu. I know I knock the studio system, but if you were to ask me what it was like to live in Hollywood in the twenties I’d have to say that we were all—oh!—marvellously degenerate and happy. We were a world of our own, and outsiders didn’t intrude. People tell you that the reason a lot of actors left Hollywood when sound came in was that their voices were wrong for talkies. That’s the official story. The truth is that the coming of sound meant the end of the all-night parties. With talkies, you couldn’t stay out till sunrise anymore. You had to rush back from the studios and start learning your lines, ready for the next day’s shooting at 8 A.M. That was when the studio machine really took over. It controlled you, mind and body, from the moment you were yanked out of bed at dawn until the publicity department put you back to bed at night.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Damn not Diane Ladd. RIP to a real one.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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just thinking about my girl GILDA
Rita Hayworth in GILDA
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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important
Miut, the cat of sound designer Gurwal Coïc-Gallas, provided the voice of the cat in Flow
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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still a perfect movie

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A black cat floating in space above a five star rating for the film FLOW which reads: Rewatching this while laying on my couch with my two cats while I recover from a cold? A spiritual experience.
November 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Halloween double feature night of HE WHO GETS SLAPPED and DAYBREAKERS with @812filmreviews.com
Blu-rays of HE WHO GETS SLAPPED and DAYBREAKERS
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS in 35mm @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social with @812filmreviews.com hell yeah!!
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS marquee
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM