Matt Zoller Seitz Explained

Matt Zoller Seitz
Birth Date:26 December 1968
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    Children:2
    Alma Mater:Southern Methodist University[1]

    Matt Zoller Seitz (born December 26, 1968)[2] is an American film and television critic, author and filmmaker.

    Career

    Matt Zoller Seitz is editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com,[3] and the television critic for New York magazine and Vulture.com, as well as a member ofthe George Foster Peabody Awards[4] board of jurors. He was previously a television critic at Salon.com and The Newark Star Ledger, and a film critic for The New York Times. Prior to this he was a regular media columnist for the Dallas Observer. He founded the film and media criticism blog The House Next Door. Seitz is known as a leader in the creation of video essays, frequently featured on Moving Image Source[5] and The L Magazine,[6] and served as the publisher of PressPlay, a site for video-based film and television criticism. He was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.[7]

    Seitz's second book, The Wes Anderson Collection, was published by Abrams Books in 2013.[8] In February 2015, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel was published by Abrams Books. The Wes Anderson Collection was praised for its design and layout, which was intended to suggest the look and feel of an Anderson film and suggest that the reader was being taken on a tour of the filmmaker's imagination. "This book is the future," wrote Michael Sicinski in Cineaste.[9]

    Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion written by Seitz and with illustrations by Max Dalton was published by Abrams Books in November 2015.

    His latest book, The Press Gang, co-written with Godfrey Cheshire and Armond White and published by Seven Stories Press in 2020, is a compilation of Seitz's long-form film criticism written in the alternative weekly New York Press during the late 1990s and early 2000s.[10]

    Filmmaking

    He wrote, directed, and edited the feature film Home (2005).[11]

    Personal life

    Zoller Seitz grew up primarily in Dallas.[2] He was the son of jazz pianist David Zoller (1941–2020).[12] [13]

    Zoller Seitz was married to Jennifer Dawson from 1994 until her death on April 27, 2006. They had two children, Hannah and James Seitz.[1] [14] He married his second wife, Nancy Dawson, who was his first wife's sister and the ex-wife of his step-father's son Richard,[15] [16] in February 2017.[17] They divided their time between Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and Cincinnati.[18] [19] Nancy Dawson died of cancer on April 27, 2020. Zoller Seitz's father died in November of that year, and his mother in April 2021.[13] [20] Zoller Seitz wrote extensively about his personal experiences with grief and loss in a series of articles published on RogerEbert.com.[21]

    Preferences

    He participated in the decennial 2022 Sight & Sound Poll, where he selected his 10 favorite films of all time: All That Jazz (1979), Close-Up (1990), Days of Heaven (1978), (1927), (1968), Goodfellas (1990), American Dream (1990), Do the Right Thing (1989), Salesman (1969), and A Bread Factory (2018).

    Bibliography

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: All the things that remind me of her. Seitz. Matt Zoller. Salon. November 25, 2010. July 23, 2015. April 13, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190413185456/https://www.salon.com/2010/11/25/jennifers_40_birthday_seitz_essay/. live.
    2. Web site: Movies on my Birthday: A Partial List. December 26, 2016. December 30, 2016. RogerEbert.com. October 31, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191031054459/https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/movies-on-my-birthday-a-partial-list. live.
    3. Web site: Matt Zoller Seitz Biography & Movie Reviews Roger Ebert . September 22, 2013 . August 14, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190814184457/https://www.rogerebert.com/contributors/matt-zoller-seitz . live .
    4. Web site: Who We Are. November 25, 2019. Grady College and University of Georgia. April 29, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160429100913/http://www.peabodyawards.com/about. live.
    5. Web site: Moving Image Source . September 22, 2013 . August 3, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190803001206/http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/authors/Matt%20Zoller-Seitz . live .
    6. Web site: The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide Articles & Archives Matt Zoller Seitz . September 22, 2013 . May 14, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090514010622/http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/ArticleArchives?author=1152779 . live .
    7. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes Finalists . September 25, 2013 . March 23, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080323164311/http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1994 . live .
    8. Book: The Wes Anderson Collection . 9780810997417 . September 22, 2013 . May 15, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150515174121/http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/The_Wes_Anderson_Collection-9780810997417.html . live . Seitz . Matt Zoller . October 8, 2013 . Harry N. Abrams .
    9. Web site: The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Pop Culture - Abrams & Chronicle. Abrams & Chronicle. October 21, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20180506094806/http://www.abramsandchronicle.co.uk/books/pop-culture/9781419715716-the-wes-anderson-collection-the-grand-budapest-hotel. May 6, 2018. dead.
    10. Web site: White . Armond . The Press Gang . Seven Stories Press . 5 February 2021 . January 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210123204850/https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4214-the-press-gang . live .
    11. Web site: Brooklynschoolyard.com . September 22, 2013 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102615/http://www.brooklynschoolyard.com/makers.html . live .
    12. Web site: Zoller Seitz . Matt . A hard-hitting, investigative look at my dad MZS . rogerebert.com . June 15, 2014 . May 10, 2020 . June 25, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200625033401/https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-hard-hitting-investigative-look-at-my-dad . live .
    13. Web site: Dallas Jazz Musician and Composer David Zoller Died on Monday. November 13, 2020. Eva. Raggio. Jacob. Reyes. Dallas Observer. December 26, 2020. December 13, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201213021654/https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-jazz-musician-and-composer-david-zoller-died-on-monday-11961520. live.
    14. Web site: Sad, Sad News. April 28, 2006. July 23, 2015. The House Next Door. Slant Magazine. Sepinwall. Alan. January 7, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190107124542/https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/sad-sad-news. live.
    15. 1254908333003284482. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . April 27, 2020. I learned of Jen’s death from my brother Rich, who was there when she had her heart attack. Richard met Nancy at Jen’s memorial, married her in 2008 and they divorced eight years later. Rich texted me today shortly after I learned the news. He just had a feeling. 2/.
    16. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . I hope to someday re-release my only feature as director, Home (2005), a family project that I did with my late wife Jennifer Dawson (producer, my brother Jeremy Seitz (producer & sound recordist) and Richard Seitz (producer & sound designer), my stepfather's only son. . 1667047828902772736 . 9 June 2023 . en . 9 June 2023.
    17. 831967951733608448. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . February 15, 2017. Me and @brideface after getting married in NYC. . February 15, 2017.
    18. 767205094630760448. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . August 20, 2016. My block in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. .
    19. 1011327718724657152. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . June 25, 2018. 2. I'm going to be moving to Cincinnati to be with Nancy (we were a two-city couple prior to this) and will stay there continuously through the end of the year.... January 6, 2019.
    20. 1254905859357933569. mattzollerseitz. Zoller Seitz . Matt . April 27, 2020. 283. 'She died of cancer.' That’s what Nancy wanted me to say. And that’s what happened at 5:53 PM on April 27. Nancy’s sister Jennifer, my first wife, died 14 yrs ago at 6:01 PM on April 27. Nancy began declining meals and pills shortly after midnight after learning the date. 1/. April 27, 2020.
    21. Web site: The Personal Essays of Matt Zoller Seitz . Zoller Seitz, Matt. RogerEbert.com. February 15, 2024.
    22. Web site: Douglas. James Robert. An Interview with Matt Zoller Seitz. The Lifted Brow. January 28, 2016. June 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203122503/http://theliftedbrow.com/post/90009157057/an-interview-with-matt-zoller-seitz. February 3, 2016. dead.
    23. Book: The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. February 10, 2015 . ABRAMS. 9781419715716 . January 28, 2016. October 30, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191030165318/https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/wes-anderson-collection-the-grand-budapest-hotel_9781419715716/. live.
    24. Book: Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion. November 10, 2015 . ABRAMS. 9781419720635 . January 28, 2016. June 13, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170613220636/http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/mad-men-carousel_9781419720635/. live.
    25. Alan. Sepinwall. sepinwall. 692383683152625664. January 27, 2016. TV (The Book), which I wrote with @mattzollerseitz, is now available for pre-order. January 28, 2016.
    26. News: O'Connell. Max. Oliver Stone to Get the Matt Zoller Seitz Treatment in New Book, 'The Oliver Stone Experience'. January 28, 2016. Indiewire. April 25, 2014. February 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203144928/http://www.indiewire.com/article/oliver-stone-to-get-the-matt-zoller-seitz-treatment-in-the-oliver-stone-experience. live.
    27. Zoller Seitz . Matt . mattzollerseitz. 692239893767024641. January 26, 2016. A spread from the ALEXANDER section of THE OLIVER STONE EXPERIENCE, now in the final editing stage.. January 28, 2016.
    28. Simon. Abrams. simonsaybrams. 848956268551303170. April 3, 2017. @mattzollerseitz & I have written a book about @RealGDT's DEVIL'S BACKBONE[...]. April 4, 2017.
    29. Zoller Seitz . Matt . mattzollerseitz. 955563500868382720. January 22, 2018. From the style guide for the forthcoming book THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS, a team effort by @sepinwall and @mattzollerseitz, due in stores Jan 10, 2019.. January 23, 2018.

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