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I don't drown in the mirror on the wall.

Cool People Have Feelings, Too

Cool People Have Feelings, Too

Home of the Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide. Here you will find writing about films directed by women, silent cinema, and other esoteric (mostly) film related stuff.

Recent posts

Favorite Posters From Lost Silent Films, Part One

It's All Forgotten Now: Silent Sundays

Jan 11 • Marya E. Gates

In my depths all treasures dwell.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Jan 9 • Marya E. Gates

My Favorite New-To-Me Discoveries of 2025

Older Films I Watched For The First Time This Year

Jan 6 • Marya E. Gates

Directed By Women Viewing Guide

I don't drown in the mirror on the wall.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Jan 16 • Marya E. Gates

In my depths all treasures dwell.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Jan 9 • Marya E. Gates

Everything gets ordinary, eventually.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Jan 2 • Marya E. Gates

I feel like I've been here forever.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Dec 26, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

I am not ashamed to say I loved with all my heart.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

Dec 19, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Silent Film

Favorite Posters From Lost Silent Films, Part One

It's All Forgotten Now: Silent Sundays

Jan 11 • Marya E. Gates

My Favorite New-To-Me Discoveries of 2025

Older Films I Watched For The First Time This Year

Jan 6 • Marya E. Gates

December 2025: Sara Gómez, Merle Oberon, and Christmas Movies

Monthly Roundup Post

Jan 1 • Marya E. Gates

October 2025: Fall Film Festivals Part 2 - Pordenone Silent, ChiFilmFest, and Virginia Film Festival

Monthly Roundup Post

Nov 1, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

My Favorite New-To-Me Discoveries of 2024

Older Films I Watched For The First Time This Year

Jan 2, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

What I'm Reading: Cinematic Memoirs

Periodical Reading Recommendations

Nov 20, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Top posts

Gerald "Gerry" Gates, 1950-2025

May 30, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Marya's Favorite Fifteen Films of 2024

Jan 1, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Watching The X-Files With No Lights On

Aug 16, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

I'd save every day like a treasure.

Jun 21, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Cinema Her Way: Unboxing and Interview Subject Reveal

Dec 28, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Cinema Her Way Book

"Everybody loved this film; they were so moved by it."

An Excerpt From "Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words"

Dec 7, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Celebrating Lizzie Borden's New York Feminisms Trilogy on Blu-ray

An Excerpt From "Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words"

Sep 16, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Allison Anders on the Empowerment of Natural Childbirth

An Excerpt From "Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words"

May 11, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Cinema Her Way: It's Pub Day!

Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words is on sale today!!!

Feb 25, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Cinema Her Way: Unboxing and Interview Subject Reveal

After a ten year journey, I'm an author!

Dec 28, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Recommendations

The Cinema at the End of the World

The Cinema at the End of the World

Kyle T

Louise Brooks Society Substack

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Self-Styled Siren

Self-Styled Siren

This movie is a Cancer

This movie is a Cancer

Ashley Brim

Black Film Archive by Maya S. Cade

Black Film Archive by Maya S. Cade

Maya Cade

Travel Diary

Travel Diary Blues

Nov 21, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Travel Diary Blues

Nov 20, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Travel Diary Blues

Nov 19, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Monthly Roundup

My Favorite New-To-Me Discoveries of 2025

Older Films I Watched For The First Time This Year

Jan 6 • Marya E. Gates

December 2025: Sara Gómez, Merle Oberon, and Christmas Movies

Monthly Roundup Post

Jan 1 • Marya E. Gates

✨ A Look Back at 2025 in Writing, Appearances, Trauma, and Joy.✨

This year was a lot.

Dec 27, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Noirvember 2025: Fall Film Festivals, Part 3 - Houston Cinema Arts and Tallinn Black Nights

Monthly Roundup Post

Dec 1, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

October 2025: Fall Film Festivals Part 2 - Pordenone Silent, ChiFilmFest, and Virginia Film Festival

Monthly Roundup Post

Nov 1, 2025 • Marya E. Gates

Interviews

KVIFF Interview: Juho Kuosmanen on his Silent Trilogy

"The grammar of silent films gives me freedom that I don't feel that I have with feature films."

Jul 16, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Interview: Director-Writer-Producer-Actor Jake Allyn on His Directorial Debut "Ride"

"It is definitely a movie about the rural community, that was made by the rural community."

Jun 13, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Interview: Filmmaker Marlo McKenzie on Her Documentary "Carol Doda Topless at the Condor"

"That's what I take from her: to be authentically yourself."

Mar 21, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

Interview: Writer-Director Molly Manning Walker on Her Debut Film "How To Have Sex"

"I wanted to look at how we're taught how to have sex wrong and what that leads to."

Feb 1, 2024 • Marya E. Gates

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