@lindywasp That's one hell of a tricky tightrope walk.
Bio: Formerly a film critic for The New York Times, New York Press and The Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz is a filmmaker specializing in films about filmmaking. His documentaries can be viewed at the Museum of the Moving Image, the L Magazine, and YouTube. Seitz is also the founder of The House Next Door and a contributor to Salon.
"Lock & Load," a video essay about the use of guns in the movies, is presented by Capital and Matt Zoller Seitz, editor emeritus of The House Next Door.
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Posted on August 11th, 2010 11:11pm
I went into Salt expecting a big, loud, incoherent, derivative action film without a single smart bone in its plasticized body. A film with no personality, no taste, no sense of style. And yet another film that makes you wonder whatever happened to Angelina Jolie, whose acclaimed early work in Girl, Interrupted, the HBO biopic Gia, the TNT miniseries “George Wallace,” marked her as a potentially great screen star, a ferociously charismatic actress in a pinup girl’s body. More
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 4:35pm
simonsaybrams: @mattzollerseitz @tnyfrontrow I try to blend in, Matt. I had my baguette, red, white and blue scarf, and beret on.
abenedikt: @mattzollerseitz @simonsaybrams @scott_tobias @twincinema @gemko a lot is mix. 1100 wd Terence Davies feat opens section. 21 jp st next!simonsaybrams: @mattzollerseitz @TonyDayoub @sepinwall I like the air quotes around "suck." I just wanted to say that. I have no dog in this race.
michaelbarthel: @mattzollerseitz bc it's like filming a major scene & then instead of showing it, showing a title card: "this scene can be seen on the DVD."simonsaybrams: @mattzollerseitz @scott_tobias @twincinema @gemko I know. We've had this conversation, Mart, specifically about word count in the NYT.
davidlsims: @mattzollerseitz @tvoti are you kidding me? the creepy, strange, sudden demise will make it quite the cult curio years from now.davidlsims: @mattzollerseitz @Memles @tvoti now that I want to see.davidlsims: @mattzollerseitz @tvoti oh, for sure. at best, i can imagine some sort of "lost episodes" dvd feature giving us a glimpse at abandoned s2
