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The Cruelest Month, Part 4: A Leave of Presence
On the personal legacy of Roger Ebert.
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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On the personal legacy of Roger Ebert.
A remembrance of the author's second wife, Nancy Dawson.
In memory of Genie Grant, wicked stepmother.
The first floor in a series of essays about the significance of the month of April in the author's life.
The pioneering character actor always brought something extra to every project.
An appreciation of Tom Cruise's performance in "Eyes Wide Shut."
A tribute to the legendary director Michael Apted.
A tribute to pioneering filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver, who told distinctive stories that often focused on Jewish Americans and women.
The author remembers his father, pianist, composer and arranger Dave Zoller.
A great movie star and versatile actor, the once and future Bond was also an icon of primordial masculinity, for better and worse.
