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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
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Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
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You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and SINNERS tied the @chicagocritics.bsky.social
record for the most nominations this morning, landing a dozen nominations each. Read on for the full list of nominees, which acknowledges the achievements of over 40 films. Check back Thursday night for the winners!
"One Battle After Another," "Sinners" Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
The 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association nominees.
www.rogerebert.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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“As the editors and critics of RogerEbert.com assembled to build their list, we settled on a crop of pictures both gargantuan in scope and intimate in tone,” writes Assistant Editor @clintworthing.bsky.social: Read the full piece on our top ten films in what has been a stellar year for movies:
The Ten Best Films of 2025 | Features | Roger Ebert
The best films of 2025, as chosen by the regular film critics of RogerEbert.com.
www.rogerebert.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I’ve waited the entire year to write about Carson Lund’s wonderful baseball film EEPHUS.

I finally got to do so for the Top 10 films of the year on @ebertvoices.bsky.social, where it placed at #8!!!

Read my blurb and many more: www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Listening to this CD my Dad bought when I was in middle school. I remember reading the end of the liner essay and just being like 😱
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Merle Oberon, what a smokeshow
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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More than ever it's crucial to be able to understand the provenance/trajectory of information to determine authenticity + reliability.

Generative AI tools "cannot indicate that no information exists; instead, they will invent details that appear plausible but have no basis in the archival record."
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Money buys impunity.
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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unfortunately, me
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
unfortunately, me
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Hawke! Sorry.
Outstanding Lead Performance: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You; Ethan Hawkw, Blue Moon

Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners; Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent #TFCAawards
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Best Lead Performance, Winners: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, and Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON #LAFCA
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A little excerpt from my book where Gillian Armstrong talks about making Hollywood men in suits cry with her film LITTLE WOMEN
"Everybody loved this film; they were so moved by it."
An Excerpt From "Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words"
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Yesssss!
Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I’m proud of Marya everyday but damn somehow she just gets to new levels of amazing. Her book has been listed on Sight & Sound!!!
Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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congratulations, Marya!
Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!

Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Literally the email I just got from Netflix, wherein Casablanca is a "franchise" on par with Big Bang Theory and Wednesday
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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In this week’s guide: the latest from Chloé Zhao, the singularly queer directorial debut of Kristen Stewart, a genre-defying queer French film starring Jodie Foster, Slovenia’s entry for this year’s Oscars (also queer), three rep series playing in NYC, and a doc about life in the Occupied West Bank.
Did this really happen to me?
Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I really love Slovenia's Oscar submission LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, an intense queer awakening made with uncommon precision.

My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Little Trouble Girls review: Sensual queer yearning in Slovenia
It’s a profoundly Catholic work.
www.rogerebert.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM