🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩

it's great. I wrote about that one here

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I had EIGHT pieces drop this week! Linked below ⬇️

of course you knew I would tie Alice somehow to BABYLON

As Silent Sundays and International Women’s Day collide, a look back at the life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché, The Mother of Cinema

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/alice-guy-...

In case you missed yesterday's review, Mary Pickford goes to Scotland in THE PRIDE OF THE CLAN. Well, Massachusetts anyway. A bit plodding despite the cannibals.

Her eyelashes in ASPHALT had their own zip code. Magnificent!

The number of people on Bluesky who just have to hand it to Birth of a Nation and DW Griffith...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026) A personal tribute to a great actor, a great friend, and a gentle giant of a man.

"He was a great teacher who spoke not just to the craft elements of acting, but the complexities of existence. A few compared his classes to a kind of therapy. Same with his movies,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about the late Tom Noonan.

as always my work is “too niche”

my newsletter is my main income and I am NOT making anywhere near this amount from it

aka get a glimpse into what our conversations are like while listening to records and making dinner at night.

ANNA GIFTY SMILING OFFICIAL SPEAKER SXSW 2026 March 12-18 Austin, Texas

IT'S OFFICIAL. WE'RE GOING TO #SXSW2026! 😭

On March 18, join me and IWPR for a session titled "The Cost of Inclusion," where we will break down DEI rollbacks, Black women in our economy, and more. If you're coming, add our session here: schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...!

for the night crowd

Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚

Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️

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The damn queen.

Mmm.

of course you knew I would tie Alice somehow to BABYLON

One way to celebrate International Women’s Day would be to buy my book, CINEMA HER WAY, which has career-spanning interviews with 19 women filmmakers ✨

This is good, you should read this.

thank you Norm!

As Silent Sundays and International Women’s Day collide, a look back at the life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché, The Mother of Cinema

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/alice-guy-...

I finally watched this blind spot tonight, and it's lovely. Helen Shaver had an interesting stretch in the mid-1980s with this and THE COLOR OF MONEY, and a Scorsese episode of AMAZING STORIES in between.

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We did it!

I came way late to this movie and man, it's beautiful and this essay is great.

Fantastic bookstore to keep on your browsing/searching list. I got @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social's female directors book (autographed!) from there and their curated selection is primo stuff. Most recently bought Robert McGinnis and Frazetta art books worth their weight in gold (but paid much less)

Matt is simply the best. I owe so much of who I am as a writer and as a person to him. He’s an endlessly supportive force and his and Judith’s bookstore is a necessary and rich resource.

Y’all I need FIVE more followers on my new silent film IG to hit my goal for the week. Help a girl out ✨✨✨