🏳️🌈 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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
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
A little excerpt from my book where Gillian Armstrong talks about making Hollywood men in suits cry with her film LITTLE WOMEN
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Yesssss!
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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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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!!!
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
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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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
congratulations, Marya!
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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!
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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
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!
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!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
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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
Literally the email I just got from Netflix, wherein Casablanca is a "franchise" on par with Big Bang Theory and Wednesday
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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
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.
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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.
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
I really love Slovenia's Oscar submission LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, an intense queer awakening made with uncommon precision.
My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
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For anyone who remotely thought about being an architect, Frank Gehry was a god (I was lucky enough to study architecture for three years in high school, do internships, and study some in college). This is an immeasurable loss.
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For anyone who remotely thought about being an architect, Frank Gehry was a god (I was lucky enough to study architecture for three years in high school, do internships, and study some in college). This is an immeasurable loss.
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
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.
instead of reading this bullshit watch THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT.
If anything we’re getting complacent because it’s easier to just let the planet die than turn it around because the politicization of science, and especially climate science, makes any real harm reduction impossible
If anything we’re getting complacent because it’s easier to just let the planet die than turn it around because the politicization of science, and especially climate science, makes any real harm reduction impossible
Contributor: The left's climate panic is finally calming down
Contributor: The left's climate panic is finally calming down
Millions of Americans may still believe warming exists, but far fewer view it as an imminent existential threat.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
instead of reading this bullshit watch THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT.
If anything we’re getting complacent because it’s easier to just let the planet die than turn it around because the politicization of science, and especially climate science, makes any real harm reduction impossible
If anything we’re getting complacent because it’s easier to just let the planet die than turn it around because the politicization of science, and especially climate science, makes any real harm reduction impossible
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There is no good result when one potential monopoly is battling another potential monopoly to become a very big monopoly
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There is no good result when one potential monopoly is battling another potential monopoly to become a very big monopoly
the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global.
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
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Yeah, it's fascism. The only question is, like ivy, how far have the tendrils taken root, and is the brickwork damaged to the point the building is compromised, or can we just tear the shit off at the next election?
Yikes — This new Orwellian Pentagon propaganda video touting “transparency” as they fill the *press corps* with loyalists like Loomer & Gaetz plays like a horror film.
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yeah, it's fascism. The only question is, like ivy, how far have the tendrils taken root, and is the brickwork damaged to the point the building is compromised, or can we just tear the shit off at the next election?
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BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
sent in my personal top ten list for @ebertvoices.bsky.social tonight and spent a full two hours struggling choosing between number ten and number eleven.
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
sent in my personal top ten list for @ebertvoices.bsky.social tonight and spent a full two hours struggling choosing between number ten and number eleven.
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ICYMI
ENDLESS COOKIE is so incredibly funny, provocative and proudly idiosyncratic. The Spirit Award nominee in Documentary is also now a Critic’s Pick.
My review.
My review.
‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
ICYMI
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One of my favourite films of the year.
Excited to announce I wrote the essay for the Blu-ray release of Constance Tsang’s stunning feature debut BLUE SUN PALACE
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December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of my favourite films of the year.
this is one of my absolute favorites of the year. wholly original.
ENDLESS COOKIE is so incredibly funny, provocative and proudly idiosyncratic. The Spirit Award nominee in Documentary is also now a Critic’s Pick.
My review.
My review.
‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this is one of my absolute favorites of the year. wholly original.