Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

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Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer. Incredible dance moves.

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This is happening Saturday at the Texas Theatre, and tickets are free if you walk up to the box office and mention Pluto TV!

The Parallax View came out this week in 1974. We're screening it June 29 at Texas Theatre in Dallas, where Oswald was arrested. Followed by the premiere of a 20-min documentary featuring Sam Esmail & yours truly, edited by @nelsoncarvajal.bsky.social! Tix here: thetexastheatre.com/film/the-par...

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The Parallax View came out this week in 1974. We're screening it June 29 at Texas Theatre in Dallas, where Oswald was arrested. Followed by the premiere of a 20-min documentary featuring Sam Esmail & yours truly, edited by @nelsoncarvajal.bsky.social! Tix here: thetexastheatre.com/film/the-par...

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This is as much a piece about how the industry kind of sucks now as much as it is about this one guy, who seems both uniquely energetic and a lot like most people I know in L.A.

“Some people say, ‘If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.’ Those people have never met Jerry Habibi.” A portrait of a working actor in DFW. The sheer amount of hustle involved is really something. www.dmagazine.com/publications...

The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz (Is From The Colony)www.dmagazine.com Jerry Habibi plans to conquer Hollywood. And he’ll do it from a house he shares with his mom.

“Some people say, ‘If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.’ Those people have never met Jerry Habibi.” A portrait of a working actor in DFW. The sheer amount of hustle involved is really something. www.dmagazine.com/publications...

The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz (Is From The Colony)www.dmagazine.com Jerry Habibi plans to conquer Hollywood. And he’ll do it from a house he shares with his mom.

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dallas! just got an email that pluto tv is sponsoring a weekend of free movies at texas theatre (!!!!!!!!!) this is not sponcon but love texas theatre and love free movies and some of them even have intros from @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.paramountpressexpress.com/pluto-tv/sho...

Paramount Press Express | PLUTO TV’S ‘SUMMER OF CINEMA’ CAMPAIGN RETURNSwww.paramountpressexpress.com Pluto TV’s ‘Free Movie Weekend’ Champions Independent Theaters and Honors the Movie-Going Experience with In-Person Activations at 14 Local Cinemas A

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It was a treat to interview Michael Barker, the copresident of Sony Pictures Classics, about his Dallas roots, and his visit to the Oak Cliff Film Festival this weekend. www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

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A role model for lanky, barber-averse men everywhere.

“It wasn’t just Sutherland’s tall, lean frame, gregarious energy and convincing performances as smart guys that made him attractive. (Remember his caddish professor in Animal House?) It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.” www.vulture.com/article/reme...

Donald Sutherland Was Some Kind of Movie Starwww.vulture.com Few actors committed as ferociously. Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.

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“It wasn’t just Sutherland’s tall, lean frame, gregarious energy and convincing performances as smart guys that made him attractive. (Remember his caddish professor in Animal House?) It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.” www.vulture.com/article/reme...

Donald Sutherland Was Some Kind of Movie Starwww.vulture.com Few actors committed as ferociously. Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.

It was a treat to interview Michael Barker, the copresident of Sony Pictures Classics, about his Dallas roots, and his visit to the Oak Cliff Film Festival this weekend. www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

“It wasn’t just Sutherland’s tall, lean frame, gregarious energy and convincing performances as smart guys that made him attractive. (Remember his caddish professor in Animal House?) It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.” www.vulture.com/article/reme...

Donald Sutherland Was Some Kind of Movie Starwww.vulture.com Few actors committed as ferociously. Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.

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The answer itself isn’t exactly satisfying, but some thorough/fun legwork from @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social here. Also, “Cold Cuts” is an under-appreciated episode.

The Sopranos Swipewww.vulture.com Thawing the mystery behind the series’ most perplexing freeze-frame moment.

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your honor, my defendant was told that a shrimp fried this rice

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Matt called me to ask if I had any thoughts on this, and it may be the first time in the past 25 years where an obscure Sopranos detail came up and I just shrugged and moved on with my day.

Remember that odd transition in the Season 5 Sopranos episode "Cold Cuts" where it goes into slow-motion, then freeze-frames, then does a wipe to the next scene? I have completed my investigation. Somebody alert Reddit! www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Sopranos Swipewww.vulture.com Thawing the mystery behind the series’ most perplexing freeze-frame moment.

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As an editor I find this "lol I have no memory at all of why we did it like that" deeply relatable. Great piece by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

Remember that odd transition in the Season 5 Sopranos episode "Cold Cuts" where it goes into slow-motion, then freeze-frames, then does a wipe to the next scene? I have completed my investigation. Somebody alert Reddit! www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Sopranos Swipewww.vulture.com Thawing the mystery behind the series’ most perplexing freeze-frame moment.

Remember that odd transition in the Season 5 Sopranos episode "Cold Cuts" where it goes into slow-motion, then freeze-frames, then does a wipe to the next scene? I have completed my investigation. Somebody alert Reddit! www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Sopranos Swipewww.vulture.com Thawing the mystery behind the series’ most perplexing freeze-frame moment.

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Floored by this upon first watch recently. When I was growing up in the 90s, the JFK conspiracy people were presented to me as something like a niche community of Reddit kooks. But THE PARALLAX VIEW reveals a wider spread to suspicion in the decade immediately following the assassination.

The Parallax View came out this week in 1974. We're screening it June 29 at Texas Theatre in Dallas, where Oswald was arrested. Followed by the premiere of a 20-min documentary featuring Sam Esmail & yours truly, edited by @nelsoncarvajal.bsky.social! Tix here: thetexastheatre.com/film/the-par...

The Parallax View came out this week in 1974. We're screening it June 29 at Texas Theatre in Dallas, where Oswald was arrested. Followed by the premiere of a 20-min documentary featuring Sam Esmail & yours truly, edited by @nelsoncarvajal.bsky.social! Tix here: thetexastheatre.com/film/the-par...

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We have 20 signed copies of @BostonGlobe Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, critic Odie Henderson’s Blaxploitation history, for sale at $15. That’s almost $2 less than Amazon is charging unsigned. Link here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Black...

Blast from the past: Here’s a video essay I did with Kevin B. Lee and Dave Bunting on Born on the Fourth of July. My favorite Oliver Stone film – perfect movie, in my opinion. vimeo.com/198449570

048. Born on the Fourth of July (dir. Oliver Stone) Video Essayvimeo.com Video Essay Catalog No. 48 by Kevin B. Lee. Written by Matt Zoller Seitz. Co-produced by Matt Zoller Seitz and Kevin B. Lee. Narrated by Dave Bunting. Produced for…

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We have 20 signed copies of @BostonGlobe Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, critic Odie Henderson’s Blaxploitation history, for sale at $15. That’s almost $2 less than Amazon is charging unsigned. Link here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Black...

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We have 20 signed copies of @BostonGlobe Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, critic Odie Henderson’s Blaxploitation history, for sale at $15. That’s almost $2 less than Amazon is charging unsigned. Link here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Black...

Ordered! Thanks for the heads up!

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Buy one! I guarantee you'll enjoy this raunchy and informative trip through the era written by a bad mother SHUT YO MOUTH. Can ya dig it?

We have 20 signed copies of @BostonGlobe Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, critic Odie Henderson’s Blaxploitation history, for sale at $15. That’s almost $2 less than Amazon is charging unsigned. Link here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Black...

We have 20 signed copies of @BostonGlobe Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, critic Odie Henderson’s Blaxploitation history, for sale at $15. That’s almost $2 less than Amazon is charging unsigned. Link here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Black...

“They're selling AI content and paying you to fix it, and at the same time they're sending you emails about how to write like a human so you don't trigger their AI detector.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound humanwww.bbc.com If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.

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My friend Andrew Johnston, critic for Time Out NY & my blog The House Next Door, died 2008 (cancer). His mom Martha Orton published an anthology. I contributed an obit and an appreciation. Book is signed by both of us. 10 copies. If they sell out, we'll order more. Link: mzs.press/New-Arrivals...

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Andrew gave my film #BURNINGANNIE the first major rave of its film festival run, calling it “easily the most entertaining film in competition” at 2003’s Hamptons International Film Festival. Will always be grateful. 🙏🏽

My friend Andrew Johnston, critic for Time Out NY & my blog The House Next Door, died 2008 (cancer). His mom Martha Orton published an anthology. I contributed an obit and an appreciation. Book is signed by both of us. 10 copies. If they sell out, we'll order more. Link: mzs.press/New-Arrivals...

My friend Andrew Johnston, critic for Time Out NY & my blog The House Next Door, died 2008 (cancer). His mom Martha Orton published an anthology. I contributed an obit and an appreciation. Book is signed by both of us. 10 copies. If they sell out, we'll order more. Link: mzs.press/New-Arrivals...

“I think Adobe slipped this in like a raptor testing the fences. And they got shocked… this time.” www.fastcompany.com/91137832/cre...

Why creatives are fed up with Adobe and every other tech company - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Adobe users erupted in anger over the company's new terms of service. It shows how little trust creatives have in technology companies today.