Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, the author of numerous books on film and television, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Seitz’s writing on popular culture has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic, The Star-Ledger, 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. As a filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced feature films and shorts, including his feature debut Home (2005), the dramatic short The Bed Thing (2009) and Steve Loff’s Desert Rain (2011), plus video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets.
Seitz’s five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into The Wes Anderson Collection. It became one of the bestselling film books ever published, changed how pictorial criticism books were conceived and designed, and has been widely imitated. Richard Brody, film critic of The New Yorker, wrote “Seitz’s book, with its full investigation of Anderson’s art, unfolds the densely compressed layers of thought and experience, impulse and intention, that go into the making of Anderson’s films.”
The Wes Anderson Collection and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers, as were Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion, TV (The Book) and The Sopranos Sessions. Seitz’s other work includes The Oliver Stone Experience, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone, The Press Gang: Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011, The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch, The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City. The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, and Dreams of Deadwood.
Seitz is also a programmer who has curated and presented programs of film and TV at venues throughout the United States and abroad, including IFC Center in Manhattan, The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, The Texas Theatre in Dallas, The Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
