Marya E. Gates

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Favorite films

  • Leila and the Wolves
  • All That’s Left of You
  • Bye Bye Tiberias
  • Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba

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  • Mi Vida Loca

    ★★★★★

  • Girlfight

    ★★★★★

  • Girlfight

    ★★★★★

  • River's Edge

    ★★★★½

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.

    [Read my full review here]

    KVIFF 2024 #18

  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★★

    this is Chazelle's EYES WIDE SHUT

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    "A bombastic epic as artistically ambitious as those made during the height of the silent era, writer/director Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" takes the audience on a visceral odyssey through the highest highs and lowest lows of late-1920s Hollywood, from orgiastic parties and chaotic film sets to personal triumphs and melancholic moments of utter despair. As the movie business transitions from silents to talkies, characters like aging matinee idol Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), wannabe starlet…

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  • Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    ★★★★★

    Seeing a 35mm copy of this (Allison's personal copy, which she bought on eBay!!!) then discussing the film with Allison Anders in front of a sold out house at MoMA (with Tricia Cooke!!! in the audience) during The Future of Film is Female's amazing Girls To The Front series is going to be a true highlight of my life. Also signing copies of my book Cinema Her Way in the MoMA lobby with MoMA bags that had pink handles to…

  • Girlfight

    Girlfight

    ★★★★★

    Truly moved by the friends who came out to this screening at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, but also the strangers who came out and got copies of my book Cinema Her Way.

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★½

    Don’t know yet what I’m going to rate this because I did enjoy it but idk how you do alllll of what this film does and never once show menstrual blood. It still so very much feels like a man’s idea of women’s sexuality and liberation. Still keeps women as objects despite so desperately wanting to show them as the “master of their own ship.” A real conundrum. 

    NYFF #5

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★

    This movie doesn’t have anything to say about music. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about artistry. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about relationships. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about marriage. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about parenting. This doesn’t have anything to say about sexuality. This movie doesn’t have anything to say.