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Big, Big, Big, Big Movies: Jon Landau (1960-2024)
Jon Landau was the secret ingredient in James Cameron's innovative career.
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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Jon Landau was the secret ingredient in James Cameron's innovative career.
A Quiet Place: Day One is the best of the series, in large part because its such a departure.
How the PG-13 rating changed American cinema for the worse.
George Miller's fifth and presumably final "Mad Max" movie reimagines the world he created.
Once again, Netflix leaves money on the table by limiting theatrical screenings.
Critics were mostly ho-hum about "If," but it's a sneakily powerful dream-logic movie
In praise of "Jason and the Argonauts."
What's broken in moviegoing, and some ideas for fixing it.
In praise of Tom Tykwer's ridiculous and thrilling "Run Lola Run".
An account of the memorial service for film scholar David Bordwell.
