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Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the co-founder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays.
A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion, The Oliver Stone Experience, and TV (The Book). He is currently working on a novel, a children's film, and a book about the history of horror, co-authored with RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams.
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Yo, Adrian!
John Patrick Shanley, who won an Oscar for writing "Moonstruck," talks about working with the film's director, the late Norman Jewison
The Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic brought insight and acerbic wit to his reviews
Matt Zoller Seitz writes about the films he saw on each of his birthdays from 1976 to 2023.
A dispatch from Tribeca on three world premieres.
A dispatch on four documentaries that had this world premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
MZS on one of Roger's best reviews.
Pure decadent fun from start to finish.
On three timely docs from SXSW this year, including one produced by Werner Herzog.
An appreciation of cinematographer Oliver Wood, who revolutionized action filmmaking with his handheld, quick-cut style.
