🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social
✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 [email protected] | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
unfortunately, me
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
unfortunately, me
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!
Excited to announce I wrote the essay for the Blu-ray release of Constance Tsang’s stunning feature debut BLUE SUN PALACE
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blu...
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blu...
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Excited to announce I wrote the essay for the Blu-ray release of Constance Tsang’s stunning feature debut BLUE SUN PALACE
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blu...
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blu...
honestly, I would have talked to Fuller about HÄXAN for hours if I could have
nerdist.com/article/brya...
nerdist.com/article/brya...
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
honestly, I would have talked to Fuller about HÄXAN for hours if I could have
nerdist.com/article/brya...
nerdist.com/article/brya...
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I had to post this video to Twitter only, which pissed me off. (I can't remember now why they wouldn't let me publish it on YouTube).
watch: x.com/NetflixTudum...
watch: x.com/NetflixTudum...
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I had to post this video to Twitter only, which pissed me off. (I can't remember now why they wouldn't let me publish it on YouTube).
watch: x.com/NetflixTudum...
watch: x.com/NetflixTudum...
We got a HIS HOUSE reunion at the Gotham Awards
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We got a HIS HOUSE reunion at the Gotham Awards
I'm excited to share my first cover story is a profile of and conversation with filmmaker Brittany Shyne about her brilliant documentary SEEDS for @documentary.org.
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm excited to share my first cover story is a profile of and conversation with filmmaker Brittany Shyne about her brilliant documentary SEEDS for @documentary.org.
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
You can pick it up in stores, or read it online:
documentary.org/feature/idas...
me, when I started dating @812filmreviews.com (or maybe him when he started dating me)
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
me, when I started dating @812filmreviews.com (or maybe him when he started dating me)
Fave new-to-me watches:
- Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night
- Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
- Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night
- Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fave new-to-me watches:
- Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night
- Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
- Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night
- Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
Fave new-to-me watches:
- Jadran Boban’s The Feast of the Wolf
- Harald Hutter’s Leleka
- Laila Pakalnina’s Scarecrows
- Alise Zariņa’s Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart
- Jadran Boban’s The Feast of the Wolf
- Harald Hutter’s Leleka
- Laila Pakalnina’s Scarecrows
- Alise Zariņa’s Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fave new-to-me watches:
- Jadran Boban’s The Feast of the Wolf
- Harald Hutter’s Leleka
- Laila Pakalnina’s Scarecrows
- Alise Zariņa’s Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart
- Jadran Boban’s The Feast of the Wolf
- Harald Hutter’s Leleka
- Laila Pakalnina’s Scarecrows
- Alise Zariņa’s Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart
Fave new-to-me watches:
- King Vidor’s Ruby Gentry
- Crane Wilbur's Outside The Wall (1950) and The Story of Molly X (1949)
- Lionel Barrymore's His Glorious Night
- King Vidor’s Ruby Gentry
- Crane Wilbur's Outside The Wall (1950) and The Story of Molly X (1949)
- Lionel Barrymore's His Glorious Night
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Fave new-to-me watches:
- King Vidor’s Ruby Gentry
- Crane Wilbur's Outside The Wall (1950) and The Story of Molly X (1949)
- Lionel Barrymore's His Glorious Night
- King Vidor’s Ruby Gentry
- Crane Wilbur's Outside The Wall (1950) and The Story of Molly X (1949)
- Lionel Barrymore's His Glorious Night
Here’s everything I watched and wrote in Noirvember!
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/noirvember...
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here’s everything I watched and wrote in Noirvember!
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Shout out to a few more sites that had my book, CINEMA HER WAY, on their gift guides:
@readbookpage.bsky.social: www.bookpage.com/tag-page/4-b...
@theblcklst.bsky.social: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...
@crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
@readbookpage.bsky.social: www.bookpage.com/tag-page/4-b...
@theblcklst.bsky.social: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...
@crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Shout out to a few more sites that had my book, CINEMA HER WAY, on their gift guides:
@readbookpage.bsky.social: www.bookpage.com/tag-page/4-b...
@theblcklst.bsky.social: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...
@crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
@readbookpage.bsky.social: www.bookpage.com/tag-page/4-b...
@theblcklst.bsky.social: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...
@crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
Didn’t reply to this guy’s last comment, but also stupidly didn’t block this guy, and now he’s gone full racist by calling me Maria?!?!!
(I’m about as white as you can get; also Maria is a common name in the UK/Ireland; see Jane Austen books and/or my Irish great great great grandmother)
(I’m about as white as you can get; also Maria is a common name in the UK/Ireland; see Jane Austen books and/or my Irish great great great grandmother)
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Didn’t reply to this guy’s last comment, but also stupidly didn’t block this guy, and now he’s gone full racist by calling me Maria?!?!!
(I’m about as white as you can get; also Maria is a common name in the UK/Ireland; see Jane Austen books and/or my Irish great great great grandmother)
(I’m about as white as you can get; also Maria is a common name in the UK/Ireland; see Jane Austen books and/or my Irish great great great grandmother)
Time to close out #Noirvember with my annual rewatch of L.A CONFIDENTIAL. Hush-hush.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Time to close out #Noirvember with my annual rewatch of L.A CONFIDENTIAL. Hush-hush.
This is clearly the reference photo.
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is clearly the reference photo.
time for my annual #Noirvember rewatches of LAURA and SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.
I need to know what possessed Fox Home Video to airbrush Gene Tierney’s face to the point of being practically unrecognizable though.
I need to know what possessed Fox Home Video to airbrush Gene Tierney’s face to the point of being practically unrecognizable though.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
time for my annual #Noirvember rewatches of LAURA and SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.
I need to know what possessed Fox Home Video to airbrush Gene Tierney’s face to the point of being practically unrecognizable though.
I need to know what possessed Fox Home Video to airbrush Gene Tierney’s face to the point of being practically unrecognizable though.
apparently it's fascist now to point out colonial gaze in art
(this is in response to a review (boxd.it/9V7Fnf) I linked to on my review of Sirāt (boxd.it/bSCXSL) that does a deep dive on the colonial gaze of the film).
(this is in response to a review (boxd.it/9V7Fnf) I linked to on my review of Sirāt (boxd.it/bSCXSL) that does a deep dive on the colonial gaze of the film).
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
apparently it's fascist now to point out colonial gaze in art
(this is in response to a review (boxd.it/9V7Fnf) I linked to on my review of Sirāt (boxd.it/bSCXSL) that does a deep dive on the colonial gaze of the film).
(this is in response to a review (boxd.it/9V7Fnf) I linked to on my review of Sirāt (boxd.it/bSCXSL) that does a deep dive on the colonial gaze of the film).
still thinking about this beautiful soul
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
still thinking about this beautiful soul