🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩

this is just insane

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth

Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

for the night crowd: @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on money, music, and SINNERS

Look, Trump doesn't have any idea what's going on, as usual, but of the many long-running G-plots that could somewhat abruptly become the A-plot, "Every day, we get a little closer to learning the aliens are real" remains my favorite.

pretty goddamn gross

love to be looted by our criminal president

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

BTS photo of Hawke and Linklater on Boyhood

We're celebrating the Year of Hawke with a competitive exploration of his most fruitful collaboration!

HAWKE & LINKLATER SUPER DRAFT

Drafted by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social & @812filmreviews.com

Listen everywhere!
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Lost Silent Films: Wuthering Heights (1920) Silent Sundays: It's All Forgotten Now

For this week’s Silent Sundays post I look at the production, critical reaction, and legacy of the first adaptation of Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, A.V. Bramble’s 1920 adaptation that is now considered lost.

Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance? Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” “is an unabashedly romantic movie emerging at a time when few such films are being made,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_X2Zbr

Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance? Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.

The new Wuthering Heights movie isn't good, but it plays a useful role in the current movie-world, as an old-style romance that should inspire new ones—and as an object lesson in the status of adaptations:
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I think so much is happening at once Trump looting America like a vulture capitalist isn’t really going to sink in until he’s gone and we’re cataloguing the damage to see what can be saved.

Steven’s Selects: indie champion Steven Soderbergh on his favorite films across nine decades • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine To celebrate his Nitehawk Cinema season, Steven Soderbergh tells Isaac Feldberg how he selected nine films to program, why Spike Lee should have beaten him for the Palme d’Or, how Ernst Lubitsch inspi...

Steven Soderbergh sat down to discuss his favorite films—from DO THE RIGHT THING to FARGO and LOST IN TRANSLATION—for @letterboxd.social and shared his theory we reached peak cinema at the end of New Hollywood, as well as his stance that Spike Lee should've won the Palme d'Or that year at Cannes.

Celebrating Black Cinema: Shawn Edwards on the Black Movie Hall of Fame | Black Writers Week | Roger Ebert An interview with Shawn Edwards on the creation of the Black Movie Hall of Fame.

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke with Shawn Edwards about his efforts to open the Black Movie Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Missouri.

for the night crowd

ICYMI

this was a lot of fun and does not shake out quite how you expect it to

ICYMI

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Ethan Hawke, Ranked This includes films he just directed and also documentaries where he's a talking head. I still have several more films to watch cuz this man is a workaholic. [This is ranked based on how I feel about ...

This list has 74 films on it now (including a few mini-series and docs where he is a talking head). I still have seven narrative features, and a few docs/shorts/mini-series left to watch before I can consider myself a completist. Aiming to get at least those seven features watched before the Oscars.

Book Excerpt: The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films by Ashley Clark | Books | Roger Ebert A look at the new book from Ashley Clark, along with an excerpt from it, available today.

Happy to write about @ashcclark.bsky.social's new book The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films.

My thoughts and an excerpt via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

This draft is filled sooooo many wild takes, which means it was a blast to do!

Henry O'Neill shaking in his boots

Been so excited for this draft!!!!!!! A @screendrafts.bsky.social episode with @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social and @812filmreviews.com on Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater?! How could this not be amazing?!

this was a lot of fun and does not shake out quite how you expect it to

you're gonna love it